Belgravian

Belgravian

1. Literally, of, referring, or belonging to Belgravia, a wealthy district in central London. Primarily heard in UK. Those Belgravian apartments will always be far above our means, but they are lovely to dream about anyway.
2. By extension, highly fashionable, elite, or belonging to an aristocratic lifestyle. Primarily heard in UK. Oh please, you live such a Belgravian life. You wouldn't know what it means to work for a living.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • a pinch and a punch for the first of the month
  • literally
  • (the) survival of the fittest
  • beat the hell out of
  • beat the living daylights out of
  • beat the living daylights out of someone
  • beat the tar out of (one)
  • beat/knock/kick the hell out of somebody/something
  • beat/scare the daylights out of somebody
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She argues that the "failure" of The Doctor's Wife "precipitated a shift in the maturing writer's thinking that led directly to her Belgravian strategy to redefine the relationship between women readers and sensationalism rather than try to live up to the standards of realism" (137).
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dreary shadow of the Belgravian mansion descended upon her
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19 - The spotlight fell on the future of Newcastle United when it was announced that the Belgravian Group had pulled out of talks to take over the club as it was unable to agree a price.
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Verloc heard the words again in a ghostly fashion, and then the dreary shadow of the Belgravian mansion descended upon her shoulders.
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One may contemplate them, says Thackeray, 'with as much profit as the most elderly Belgravian Venus or inveterate Mayfair Jezebel' (Pendennis, ch.
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Granted, Winnie now "playfully" chortles that Verloc "loves her too much" to leave them, but her following "grave" and "motionless" seduction is accompanied by the coldness of a "glance of which the Winnie of the Belgravian mansion days would have been incapable, because of her respectability and her ignorance" (186).
"For perverse unreason has its own logical processes": masochism and redemption in The Secret Agent (1907)
Though Winnie's married life is not necessarily typical of the married life of other Victorian women, the social constraints that limit her are typical; Winnie is concerned with fulfilling the terms of her marriage as a good wife and a respectable woman ("the respectable girl of the Belgravian mansion, the loyal, respectable wife of Mr Verloc" (SA 289), and she tries to be a good daughter and sister, sacrificing her own love-match for the marriage that will ensure a home for Stevie.
The anarchist's wife: Joseph Conrad's debt to sensation fiction in The Secret Agent