silk-stocking
Example Sentences
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One of the Assistant Attorneys in the office cautioned Yates against taking the job, telling her that, coming from a silk-stocking firm, she might not be ready to deal with criminals.
From The New Yorker • May 22, 2017
His district — long a bastion of silk-stocking Republicanism — was also changing, becoming more Democratic.
From New York Times • Jun. 3, 2014
The gravitas she commands as a boldface name, even among this silk-stocking crowd, meant that people wanted her attention as she made her rounds at the conference.
From New York Times • Apr. 18, 2014
Fifth columnists had infiltrated the enemy's ranks before the British struck, assuring the arrest of some of the most notorious dealers, including the heads of the silk-stocking racket and the jewelry trust.
From Time Magazine Archive
Lincoln in reply said, laying his hand on his jeans-clad breast: "Here is your aristocrat, one of your silk-stocking gentry, at your service."
From Lincoln's Yarns and Stories: a complete collection of the funny and witty anecdotes that made Lincoln famous as America's greatest story teller by McClure, Alexander K. (Alexander Kelly)
