white-shoeadj.

Brit.

/ˈwʌɪtʃuː/, U.S.

/ˈ(h)waɪtˌʃu/

Forms: also with capital initials.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: white adj., shoe n.

Etymology: < white adj. + shoe n.In sense 1a originally with reference to people educated at Ivy League universities, who wore so-called ‘white bucks’, shoes made of white leather which were popular in the late 1940s and early 1950s; compare:1953 R. Lynes in Esquire Sept. 59 America's premier student of snobs and brows peers through the ivied windows at hallowed precincts and their new social hierarchy of White Shoe, Brown Shoe, Black Shoe... The term derives, as you probably know, from the dirty white bucks which are the standard collegiate footwear (you can buy new ones already dirty in downtown New York to save you the embarrassment of looking as though you hadn't had them all your life), but the system of pigeonholing by footwear does not stop there. It encompasses the entire community under the terms White Shoe, Brown Shoe, and Black Shoe. In sense 2 with reference to the showy white shoes worn by Queensland property developers in the 1980s.

colloquial.

1. U.S.

a. Of a person: belonging to a privileged, wealthy, often conservative American social set; having the attitudes, behaviour, or style associated with such people. Frequently derogatory.Originally esp. with reference to those educated at Ivy League universities. See note in etymology.

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1947 Princeton Alumni Weekly 21 Nov. 8/3 The white-shoe boys will get their course selections in on time from now on or else, according to a recent ruling by the Board of Trustees.

1950 Life 12 June 32/2 Such scrabbling is not for the ‘white shoe boy’ (which is 1950 college slang for gentleman).

1957 Jrnl. Higher Educ. 28 247/2 The White Shoe Crowd... Those gaudy playboys would never come to our working-class college.

1967 Harper's May 96/1 Her other son was now at Yale, going very white-shoe.

1975 N.Y. Times 22 Sept. 33/1 Covert operations can be stripped from the CIA... So can such monkey business as dropping simulated poison cannisters in the New York subways—the games of white-shoe boys who never grew up.

1999 S. Turow Personal Injuries 21 Now, on the other side of my case is Carter Franch, a real white-shoe number, Groton and Yale, and Guerfoyle treats him like an icon.

b. Of a company: belonging to a group of elite, usually long-established U.S. business organizations, typically banks or law firms.Originally with reference to firms owned and run by members of a white, wealthy, conservative elite, especially those educated at Ivy League universities. The term now includes other prestigious companies.

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white-shoe1960

1960 Amer. Sociol. Rev. 25 64/2 Even ‘white shoe’ firms are now recruiting Jewish lawyers.

1976 N.Y. Mag. 21 June 54/2 Tender-offer ‘raids’..were looked at with scorn by the more entrenched, ‘white-shoe’ Wall Street law firms.

1983 N.Y. Times 2 Dec. d1 Morgan Stanley & Company, the whitest of the white-shoe investment banking firms.

1991 A. M. Dershowitz Chutzpah ii. 51 There are the ‘white shoe’ firms. All the partners and associates are Wasps, except for maybe one real estate or tax partner. Don't even bother to apply.

1992 New Yorker 6 July 36/1 Time Inc. was so white-shoe, slipping and sliding off three-Martini lunches.

2002 BusinessWeek 21 Jan. 62/1 Chase Manhattan swooped in to bid $33 billion for white-shoe investment bank J.P. Morgan.

2. Australian. Of, belonging to, or characteristic of the wealthy businesspeople (esp. property developers) of 1980s Queensland, particularly when perceived as aggressively commercial, vulgarly showy, and politically conservative.Recorded earliest in white shoe brigade n. at Compounds.

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1984 Canberra Times 12 Dec. 28/1 The Queensland president of the Liberal Party, Mr John Moore, blasted the Nationals who tried to infiltrate safe Liberal seats as ‘troglodyte trendies from the white shoe brigade’.

1987 Sydney Morning Herald 17 Feb. 12/4 The argument about his [sc. Bjelke-Petersen's] wealthy white-shoe men and his age are irrelevant in the reality that Australian politics must change.

1991 Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 24 Nov. 29/1 The facts surrounding the failed reef city, a spectacular white-shoe project that sank into a £30m quagmire of debt and bankruptcy.

2006 Courier Mail (Queensland) (Nexis) 24 July 25 We don't want to go back to the white-shoe guys of the 1980s but we've got to get back to development.

Compounds

white shoe brigade n. Australian a group of businesspeople (esp. property developers) of 1980s Queensland, particularly when perceived as aggressively commercial, vulgarly showy, and politically conservative; spec. that group which supported state premier Johannes Bjelke-Petersen's1985–7 bid to become Prime Minister.

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1984white shoe brigade [see sense 2].

1991 Sun Herald (Sydney) (Nexis) 15 Sept. 28 Gore, famed for his brash bigotry and for leading the ‘white shoe brigade's’ Joh for PM push.

1998 AQ: Austral. Q. July 13/3 A lot of the hustlers out to make a buck—the heirs and successors of the White Shoe brigade.

2010 Weekend Austral. (Nexis) 12 June 4 The ambitious next stage of the Port Hinchinbrook luxury resort, the dream of white-shoe brigade pioneer Keith Williams, is in doubt.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	white-shoe
释义	white-shoeadj. Brit. /ˈwʌɪtʃuː/, U.S. /ˈ(h)waɪtˌʃu/ Forms: also with capital initials. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: white adj., shoe n. Etymology: < white adj. + shoe n.In sense 1a originally with reference to people educated at Ivy League universities, who wore so-called ‘white bucks’, shoes made of white leather which were popular in the late 1940s and early 1950s; compare:1953 R. Lynes in Esquire Sept. 59 America's premier student of snobs and brows peers through the ivied windows at hallowed precincts and their new social hierarchy of White Shoe, Brown Shoe, Black Shoe... The term derives, as you probably know, from the dirty white bucks which are the standard collegiate footwear (you can buy new ones already dirty in downtown New York to save you the embarrassment of looking as though you hadn't had them all your life), but the system of pigeonholing by footwear does not stop there. It encompasses the entire community under the terms White Shoe, Brown Shoe, and Black Shoe. In sense 2 with reference to the showy white shoes worn by Queensland property developers in the 1980s. colloquial. 1. U.S. a. Of a person: belonging to a privileged, wealthy, often conservative American social set; having the attitudes, behaviour, or style associated with such people. Frequently derogatory.Originally esp. with reference to those educated at Ivy League universities. See note in etymology. ΚΠ 1947 Princeton Alumni Weekly 21 Nov. 8/3 The white-shoe boys will get their course selections in on time from now on or else, according to a recent ruling by the Board of Trustees. 1950 Life 12 June 32/2 Such scrabbling is not for the ‘white shoe boy’ (which is 1950 college slang for gentleman). 1957 Jrnl. Higher Educ. 28 247/2 The White Shoe Crowd... Those gaudy playboys would never come to our working-class college. 1967 Harper's May 96/1 Her other son was now at Yale, going very white-shoe. 1975 N.Y. Times 22 Sept. 33/1 Covert operations can be stripped from the CIA... So can such monkey business as dropping simulated poison cannisters in the New York subways—the games of white-shoe boys who never grew up. 1999 S. Turow Personal Injuries 21 Now, on the other side of my case is Carter Franch, a real white-shoe number, Groton and Yale, and Guerfoyle treats him like an icon. b. Of a company: belonging to a group of elite, usually long-established U.S. business organizations, typically banks or law firms.Originally with reference to firms owned and run by members of a white, wealthy, conservative elite, especially those educated at Ivy League universities. The term now includes other prestigious companies. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > age > youth > [adjective] > young (of beings) littleeOE youngOE younglyOE younglinga1250 little waxena1325 greena1398 imperfecta1398 primec1429 unold?1440 juvync1450 novelc1450 unaged1486 in youth's flowers?1507 unbearded1560 unweaned1581 whelpish1586 ungrown1593 under-age1594 unhatched1601 infantine1603 springalda1614 unbakeda1616 unlickeda1616 juvenile1625 lile1633 juvenal1638 bloomy1651 youngish1667 blooming1676 puerilea1680 youngerly1742 steerish1789 chota1814 white-shoe1960 1960 Amer. Sociol. Rev. 25 64/2 Even ‘white shoe’ firms are now recruiting Jewish lawyers. 1976 N.Y. Mag. 21 June 54/2 Tender-offer ‘raids’..were looked at with scorn by the more entrenched, ‘white-shoe’ Wall Street law firms. 1983 N.Y. Times 2 Dec. d1 Morgan Stanley & Company, the whitest of the white-shoe investment banking firms. 1991 A. M. Dershowitz Chutzpah ii. 51 There are the ‘white shoe’ firms. All the partners and associates are Wasps, except for maybe one real estate or tax partner. Don't even bother to apply. 1992 New Yorker 6 July 36/1 Time Inc. was so white-shoe, slipping and sliding off three-Martini lunches. 2002 BusinessWeek 21 Jan. 62/1 Chase Manhattan swooped in to bid $33 billion for white-shoe investment bank J.P. Morgan. 2. Australian. Of, belonging to, or characteristic of the wealthy businesspeople (esp. property developers) of 1980s Queensland, particularly when perceived as aggressively commercial, vulgarly showy, and politically conservative.Recorded earliest in white shoe brigade n. at Compounds. ΚΠ 1984 Canberra Times 12 Dec. 28/1 The Queensland president of the Liberal Party, Mr John Moore, blasted the Nationals who tried to infiltrate safe Liberal seats as ‘troglodyte trendies from the white shoe brigade’. 1987 Sydney Morning Herald 17 Feb. 12/4 The argument about his [sc. Bjelke-Petersen's] wealthy white-shoe men and his age are irrelevant in the reality that Australian politics must change. 1991 Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 24 Nov. 29/1 The facts surrounding the failed reef city, a spectacular white-shoe project that sank into a £30m quagmire of debt and bankruptcy. 2006 Courier Mail (Queensland) (Nexis) 24 July 25 We don't want to go back to the white-shoe guys of the 1980s but we've got to get back to development. Compounds white shoe brigade n. Australian a group of businesspeople (esp. property developers) of 1980s Queensland, particularly when perceived as aggressively commercial, vulgarly showy, and politically conservative; spec. that group which supported state premier Johannes Bjelke-Petersen's1985–7 bid to become Prime Minister. ΚΠ 1984white shoe brigade [see sense 2]. 1991 Sun Herald (Sydney) (Nexis) 15 Sept. 28 Gore, famed for his brash bigotry and for leading the ‘white shoe brigade's’ Joh for PM push. 1998 AQ: Austral. Q. July 13/3 A lot of the hustlers out to make a buck—the heirs and successors of the White Shoe brigade. 2010 Weekend Austral. (Nexis) 12 June 4 The ambitious next stage of the Port Hinchinbrook luxury resort, the dream of white-shoe brigade pioneer Keith Williams, is in doubt. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1947
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