white-shoe

English

From white + shoe; their traditional footwear.

white-shoe (plural white-shoes)

white-shoe (comparative more white-shoe, superlative most white-shoe)

(US, slang) Effeminate or immature.
(US, slang) Establishment; pertaining to mainstream US social power-structures.
- 2007, Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes, Penguin 2008, p. 26:
  Dulles had been a junior diplomat after World War I and a white-shoe Wall Street lawyer in the Depression.

单词	white-shoe
释义	white-shoe English Etymology From white + shoe; their traditional footwear. Noun white-shoe (plural white-shoes) (US, slang) A stereotypical Ivy League student. Adjective white-shoe (comparative more white-shoe, superlative most white-shoe) (US, slang) Effeminate or immature. (US, slang) Establishment; pertaining to mainstream US social power-structures. 2007, Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes, Penguin 2008, p. 26: Dulles had been a junior diplomat after World War I and a white-shoe Wall Street lawyer in the Depression. Derived terms white-shoe firm
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