Chattering classes
Much used phrase in the UK to describe metropolitan professionals who discuss the day's events at their soirees and dinner parties.Any date for it, and is it current in the US?
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The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable traces it back to the 1980s.
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I've never heard it used and as Faldie suggests, it is not a likely usage here. I wish I could characterize the way that classes are thought of in the US but I can't really seem to come up with a...
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First time I heard the term was in the UK in the late 1980s.I don't think classless vs. class society helps to explain it. The UK use doesn't refer to something like the aristocracy or the public...
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The OED3 has it from 1985. All the usage citations are British (which usually doesn't necessarily mean anything, but here I think it does).
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I'm quite sure it's Brit usage. I'm surprised it only goes back that far.
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'Much used phrase in the UK to describe metropolitan professionals who discuss the day's events at their soirees and dinner parties'In Ulster we are not quite as polite we call them 'piss artists'
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