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单词 white shoe brigade
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white shoe brigade
white shoe brigade n. Australian a group of businesspeople (esp. property developers) of 1980s Queensland, particularly when perceived as aggressively commercial, vulgarly showy, and politically conservative; spec. that group which supported state premier Johannes Bjelke-Petersen's1985–7 bid to become Prime Minister.
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1984white shoe brigade [see sense 2].
1991 Sun Herald (Sydney) (Nexis) 15 Sept. 28 Gore, famed for his brash bigotry and for leading the ‘white shoe brigade's’ Joh for PM push.
1998 AQ: Austral. Q. July 13/3 A lot of the hustlers out to make a buck—the heirs and successors of the White Shoe brigade.
2010 Weekend Austral. (Nexis) 12 June 4 The ambitious next stage of the Port Hinchinbrook luxury resort, the dream of white-shoe brigade pioneer Keith Williams, is in doubt.
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