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two-toilet
adjective
used of an Irish immigrant, relatively well-off economically and straying from the Irish cultural ties that bind US
A term coined in Boston and rarely used elsewhere.- The late Patrick J. (Sonny) McDonough not only postulated the two-toilet Irish, but also once suggested to President John F. Kennedy that he not stay at Frank Sinatra’s place in Palm Springs. — The Boston Globe, p. A27, 3 June 1990
- Overseeing the downtown busing scheme, federal district judge W. Arthur Garrity, Jr., who did not live in the city, was derided by blue-collar Boston Irish as an uppity “two-toilet Irishman” who had forgotten his roots. — The Calvert News Series, Summer 1997
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