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单词 city gent
释义

city gent

English

Noun

city gent (plural city gents)

  1. (Britain, informal) A businessman working in the City of London financial district.
    • 1940 October, “Notes and News: The High Barnet Branch”, in Railway Magazine, page 569:
      Gone, never to return, is the famous minute bell at High Barnet, the sound of which has caused generations of ' City gents ' to precipitate themselves with most undignified acceleration down the steep station slope in an endeavour to scramble aboard the 8.34 a.m. Moorgate.

References

  • city gent”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
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