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chattering classes

plural noun

  1. the chattering classes informal.
    the educated sections of society, considered as enjoying discussion of political, social, and cultural issues
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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This proposal generated cavils in the chattering classes that it would drive home prices up to absorb the $25,000 grant, putatively keeping homes out of the reach of the beneficiaries.

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The senior staff in Newsnight are depicted as out of touch, patronising and part of the entitled chattering classes, when they're berated by Sam McAlister for "mistaking talking to ourselves for news".

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By constantly interrupting his fellow would-be presidential aspirants with a firehose of cocksure imbecilities, Ramaswamy captured the attention of the political chattering classes.

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Designed by Studio Gang, the Chicago-based firm led by Jeanne Gang, with New York-based Davis Brody Bond serving as executive architects, the Gilder Center has been a focus of architecture’s chattering classes since it opened in May.

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Baba was touring America in the 1970s and accruing devotees from the chattering classes by the hundreds and then the thousands — including, at one point, seemingly half of Hollywood.

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