white shoe brigade
noun Australian
Wealthy business people of Queensland in the 1980s, typically property developers, especially when perceived as aggressively commercial, vulgarly showy, and politically conservative: the white shoe brigade preferred the real-estate speculation model of productivity...
- He became a billionaire via the Gold Coast White Shoe Brigade and the mining business.
- The conference room was stacked with people who looked and behaved like caricatures of the legendary white shoe brigade of the Eighties boom time.
- Symbols of the excesses of the white-shoe brigade may be kitsch and amusing, but are indicative of a society where development was pursued for the good of a few.
Origin
1980s: with reference to the showy white shoes worn by Queensland property developers in the period.
- wear
- wearability
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- wearer
- weariless
- wearily
- weariness
- wearing
- wearing course
- wearingly
- wearisome
- wearisomely
- wearisomeness
- wear off
- wear on
- wear oneself to a shadow
- wear one's heart on one's sleeve
- wear-resistant
- wear someone/thing down
- wear someone/thing out
- wear something out (also wear out)
- wear the silver fern
- wear the trousers
- wear thin