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
Turning his phrasemaking talents to politics, Barton won election to an unexpired term in the House of Representatives in 1937 from Manhattan's "silk-stocking district," was easily re-elected the following year.
From Time Magazine Archive
I could go in with a lot of these silk-stocking fellows around here, but I don't want to.
From The Titan by Dreiser, Theodore
