cream of society
Example Sentences
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“If you are the cream of society, why would you work against a system that brings you opportunity?”
From The New Yorker ● May 14, 2017
The cream of society had crowded the princess' salon to hear famed Franz Liszt outthunder another darling of the day, suave Sigismond Thalberg.
From Time Magazine Archive
To it are invited topflight critics, big-shot editors, notables in the arts, gossip columnists, diplomats, politicians, the cream of society.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the first place, the assemblage, in a space forty metres long by thirty wide, of a hundred condemned or suspected criminals, does not constitute the cream of society.
From Scenes from a Courtesan's Life by Honoré de Balzac
FLY A familiar summer boarder who mingles with the cream of society, gets stuck on the butter and leaves his specs behind.
From The Foolish Dictionary An exhausting work of reference to un-certain English words, their origin, meaning, legitimate and illegitimate use, confused by a few pictures [not included] by Gideon Wurdz
