épater les bourgeois

To surprise people who have traditional views. "Épater" means "to flabbergast" in French. Our world is so crazy these days that it takes a lot to épater les bourgeois.

épater les bourgeois

shock people who have attitudes or views regarded as conventional or complacent.

The French phrase is generally used in English, there being no exact English equivalent. ‘Il faut épater le bourgeois’ (‘one must astonish the bourgeois’) was a comment attributed to the French poet and critic Charles Baudelaire .

1995 Times Because it takes more than a urinal to épater les bourgeois now, the real things that are being hauled into galleries grow ever more provocative: turds, frozen foetuses and used sanitary towels.

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释义	épater les bourgeois épater les bourgeois To surprise people who have traditional views. "Épater" means "to flabbergast" in French. Our world is so crazy these days that it takes a lot to épater les bourgeois. See also: les Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. épater les bourgeois shock people who have attitudes or views regarded as conventional or complacent. The French phrase is generally used in English, there being no exact English equivalent. ‘Il faut épater le bourgeois’ (‘one must astonish the bourgeois’) was a comment attributed to the French poet and critic Charles Baudelaire . 1995 Times Because it takes more than a urinal to épater les bourgeois now, the real things that are being hauled into galleries grow ever more provocative: turds, frozen foetuses and used sanitary towels. See also: les Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary See also: les crazy like a fox nut up Betsy plumb crazy crazy in the head (as) crazy as a bedbug crazy as a bedbug crackbrain crazy as a loon
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