silk-stocking district

silk-stocking district

A section of a city that is dominated by the upper-class. Even if you had the money, you wouldn't want to live in a silk-stocking district—you'd be totally subject to the whims of your wealthy neighbors.
See also: district
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • blue blood
  • we have to do lunch sometime
  • we must do lunch sometime
  • illuminate
  • illuminated
  • stocking stuffer
  • stocking-stuffer
  • stuffer
  • a quick drop and a sudden stop
References in periodicals archive
To fully appreciate the significance of the attitude shift embodied in the Times Magazine coverage, it helps to understand what I call Suburban Shame, that pervasive feeling of inadequacy and inauthenticity that comes with growing up somewhere other than a big city (preferably on its mean streets or in its silk-stocking district), a small town (preferably a "village" or "hamlet" lacking any chain stores and house numbers), or a farm (preferably a family-run operation under constant threat from both the elements and big-city bankers).
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