An enthusiastic, ambitious, and self-consciously fashionable young person, a term originally applied in the 1920s to a member of a young fashionable set noted for exuberant and outrageous behaviour.
his mansion in Los Angeles was a magnet for the bright young things of Hollywood
Example sentencesExamples
- It's the era of the bright young thing again and the ultra feminine look suits them down to the toes.
- Mortimer certainly qualifies as a bright young thing.
- The event will see the designer giving advice to those bright young things who want to follow in his footsteps.
- The bright young things behind the bar are clearly still befuddled by the complicated computer tills.
- Alongside their real life stories we'll discover if today's bright young things can do it - old style.
- When they were told that the paper's workforce had gone on strike, these bright young things were dumbfounded.
Synonyms
fop, beau, man about town, glamour boy, rake