- white-shoe
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adjective
Date: 1957
of, associated with, or characteristic of the privileged moneyed upper class ; upper-crust <a white-shoe law firm>
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
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white-shoe — adjective denoting a company or law firm owned and run by members of the WASP elite who are generally conservative the politician tried to hide his white shoe background • Similar to: ↑exclusive • Usage Domain: ↑colloquialism * * * /hwuyt shooh … Useful english dictionary
white-shoe — /hwuyt shooh , wuyt /, adj. of or pertaining to members of the upper class who own or run large corporations: white shoe bankers; a conservative white shoe image. [1975 80; appar. from the white shoes popular as moderately formal wear among… … Universalium
white-shoe — 1. noun A stereotypical Ivy League student. 2. adjective a) Effeminate or immature. Dulles had been a junior diplomat after World War I and a white shoe Wall Street lawyer in the Depression. b) Establishment; pertaining to mainstream US social… … Wiktionary
White shoe firm — is a phrase used to describe the leading professional services firms in the United States, particularly firms that have been in existence for more than a century[citation needed] and represent Fortune 500 companies. It typically but not always… … Wikipedia
White-Shoe Firm — The most prestigious firms in professions such as law, investment banking and management consulting. White shoe firms typically have a blue chip clientele, acquired over the several decades that they have been in existence. The term is believed… … Investment dictionary
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white-shoe — adjective US informal denoting a law firm or other company owned and run by members of the Wasp elite and regarded as conservative. Origin with ref. to the white shoes fashionable among Ivy League college students in the 1950s … English new terms dictionary
