upper-crust

Recently, the idea of giving upper-crust preppy items, such as bow ties, a modern spin has been a motif in men's fashion.

How Going Outside in Slippers Became Cool Ray A. Smith 2011

The second set touched off by confusing a present-day dinner party with a 1950 meeting with the patronising, upper-crust Conservative constituency committee in Dartford concern her entry into politics and meeting the successful businessman Denis Thatcher, who was to offer her security, enabling her to switch from scientific research to the law and eventually fathering her twins.

The Iron Lady – review 2012

She presumes that anyone upper-crust enough to actually read books is of course fluent in French.

Archive 2009-05-01 nissa_amas_katoj 2009

Critics complain that this has benefited only a few upper-crust millionaires, bypassing poorer groups.

Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar: Indian Untouchables Become Millionaires Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar 2011

"It's based on the English system, but the curriculum here is very interesting because it's managed to incorporate the British, American and European systems all in one and take the best of all three," said the prince in that flawless upper-crust accent.

Prince Michael pays a visit to British School, gives royal thumbs-up The Reliable Source 2011

She presumes that anyone upper-crust enough to actually read books is of course fluent in French.

Therese: Saint of a Little Way by Frances Parkinson Keyes nissa_amas_katoj 2009

That is the question that haunts the authorities after a distinguished British gentleman with an upper-crust accent cons his way past a security guard and escapes into the desert carrying a world-famous, one-of-a-kind historic relic.

Laughter of Dead Kings (Vicky Bliss, No. 6) by Elizabeth Peters: Book summary 2010

One must exert strenuously to top the ridicule-worthiness of “Thurston Willard Throckmorton Westonham IV” and similar upper-crust naming conventions, sported to this day by governors, senators, heirs and captains of industry (although often obscured by more populist nicknames for public consumption).

The Volokh Conspiracy » Stormhammer Deathclaw Firebrand 2010

"It's based on the English system, but the curriculum here is very interesting because it's managed to incorporate the British, American and European systems all in one and take the best of all three," said the prince in that flawless upper-crust accent.

A lesson in U.K. royalty Post 2011

Critics complain that this has benefited only a few upper-crust millionaires, bypassing poorer groups.

Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar: Indian Untouchables Become Millionaires Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar 2011