单词 | marzipan layer |
释义 | > as lemmasmarzipan layer marzipan layer n. Finance slang the (tier of) executives ranking immediately below the partners in a firm. ΚΠ 1985 Listener 6 June 8/3 The ‘marzipan layer’ is the bright, younger people just below the partners. 1992 Sunday Tel. 29 Mar. 40/4 Britain's ‘Marzipan layer’ already spend far more of their disposable income on housing and education than their German and French peers. 1998 Independent 16 June i. 1/2 Industry observers reckon that bankers in the so-called ‘marzipan layer’..could each receive paper windfalls of as much as $8m. < as lemmas |
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