gentleman and scholar

gentleman and scholar

English

Noun

gentleman and scholar (plural gentlemen and scholars)

1. Alternative form of scholar and gentleman
   • 1951, J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Little, Brown and Company, OCLC 287628, page 62:

     "You're a real prince. You're a gentleman and a scholar, kid," I said.

   • 2007 January 2, Alessandra Stanley, “Exposed: Celebrities, Tabloids and Sleaze!”, in New York Times:

     BBC America recently ran a documentary called “Paparazzi” that also disabused viewers of any lingering impression that gossip rags are run by gentlemen and scholars.

   • 1786, Robert Burns, The Twa Dogs:

     His locked, letter’d braw brass collar shew’d him the gentleman an’ scholar.

Anagrams

• scholar and gentleman