单词 | to shock the bourgeois |
释义 | > as lemmasto shock the bourgeois to shock the bourgeois: = épater les bourgeois at épater v. ΚΠ 1874 Athenæum 23 May 698/3 These precocious roués, these innocent débauchés, these drinkers in imagination, who shock the bourgeois by a thousand Platonic abominations. 1905 Times 14 Oct. 7/3 If in telling the truth we succeed also in shocking the bourgeois, why, so much the better! 1960 C. P. Snow Affair v. 49 It was mildly ironic, when one thought how, as a young woman, she had shocked the bourgeois, to find her set on seeing him a cosy, bourgeois success. 2006 Times Lit. Suppl. 21 Apr. 5/2 There are dozens of tales of his [sc. Baudelaire's] attempts to shock the bourgeois—usually friends, waiters and children. < as lemmas |
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