| 单词 | bright young things |
| 释义 | > as lemmasBright Young Things (also People) b. In plural, and often with capital initials, as Bright Young Things (also People). A fashionable social group within the younger generation of London high society in the 1920s and 1930s, noted for exuberant and outrageous behaviour. Also in singular: a member of this social group; (more generally, and chiefly with lower case initials) a fashionable or extravagant young socialite. Now historical.Although Bright Young People was the term first given to this social group, Bright Young Things soon became just as common.Used depreciatively by those who disapprove of the bright young people and their behaviour; hence variations such as bright young idiots (cf. quot. 1931). ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > fashionable society > [noun] > member of > female fine lady1577 girl about ( the) towna1701 élégante1797 lionne1846 flâneuse1879 mondaine1888 mundane1897 nymph1898 Sloane Ranger1975 bright young thing2016 1924 Daily Mail 22 May (Third ed.) 7/6 They belonged to a new sect in the world of fashion—the Society of Bright Young People—and were engaged on a new game. 1931 R. Aldington Colonel's Daughter iii. 142 The Bright Young Idiots, who seem determined to queer the whole pitch to the puritans, by being as vicious as they can. 1936 Morning Post 15 July 14/5 There is a section of the community..whose life seems to consist of cocktail and sherry parties, cabarets and midnight revelries... These are decadent ‘bright young things’. 2016 A. Sisman in P. L. Fermor Dashing for Post 187 (note) The three vivacious daughters of the brewing heir Ernest Guinness, all ‘Bright Young Things’ in the inter-war years. < as lemmas |
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