smart set Idioma
smart set
smart set A fashionable social group, as in
This restaurant has been discovered by the smart set. This idiom may be obsolescent. [Late 1800s]
the acute set
Hip, fashionable, abstruse socialites. Our attack has been co-opted by the acute set, and I anticipate our aboriginal bulletin is accepting absent as a result. Our aim is to accompany bounded restaurants and businesses to the absorption of the acute set. His films are consistently looked down on by the acute set, but they consistently accomplish a ton of money at the box office.Learn more: set, smartsmart set
A fashionable amusing group, as in This restaurant has been apparent by the acute set. This argot may be obsolescent. [Late 1800s] Learn more: set, smartsmart set
The fashionable socially elite. A late-nineteenth-century appellation on both abandon of the Atlantic, it was sometimes acclimated added for the blatant nouveau riche, as by Ward McAllister: “Behind what I alarm the ‘smart set’ in society, there consistently stood the old, solid, substantial, admired people” (Society As I Have Found It, 1890). In the mid-1900s it was abundantly replaced by jet set, and again by admirable people.Learn more: set, smart