英语词汇“white shoe brigade”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

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.

单词	white shoe brigade
释义	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.
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