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chattering class; chattering classes noun articulate middle-class people, especially those occupied inacademic, artistic or media work UK- Despite all the wailing and gnashing of teeth among the chattering classes, the outlook for British broadcasting is actually rather cheery. — The Times, 11 August 1985
- Tories woo Labour’s lost chattering class. — The Observer, 31 March 2002
- Liberals and Democratic politicans, goes the argument, are treated with kid gloves, but conservatives and Republicans enjoy the barely concealed hostiliy of the chattering classes. — Eric Alterman, What Liberal Media?, p. 139, 2003
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