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upper-crust
noun
the upper classes; the higher circles of society UK, 1843- It’s a tale of someone who wanted to go and go – who was sick of the dead-on-its-feet upper crust he was born into[.] — Derek Raymond, The Crust on its Uppers, 1993
- The Cambridge undergraduates who put together “Beyond the Fringe” in the 1960s had a famous sketch in which an uppercrust military officer approaches a soldier and informs him: “We need a pointless sacrifice, and I think you’re just the man.” — The Economist, 6 December 1999
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