10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CHAMPAGNE SOCIALIST»
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champagne socialist in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
champagne socialist and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional ...
395, 1999 champagne socialist noun a person attached to socialist politics who
enjoys a luxurious lifestyle uk, 1987 • They forgot to ask whether I have
communist sympathies, or perhaps they don't care any more. And after today I
can only ...
Eric Partridge, Tom Dalzell, Terry Victor, 2006
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Players of Shakespeare 5
For the present, Timon thinks he is leading some kind of philosophical revolution:
nowadays we might call him a champagne socialist. He believes, with a kind of
whiffly religiosity, that everything should be in common: there's none Can truly ...
“You're a champagne socialist?” “It's my considered political position that I should
have a right to drink champagne now and then. As a socialist, I just advocate
champagne for everybody else, as well.” “Well, that sounds perfectly consistent.
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The Chambers Dictionary
... white champagne; loosely, a wine similar to that from Champagne. —
champagne socialist (disparagingly) a person whose comfortable or extravagant
standard of living belies his or her professed socialist politics. champaign cham'
pan' or ...
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The Cultural Lives of Cause Lawyers
Mortimer is frequently referred to by the derogatory phrase “champagne socialist,
” which is commonlyassociated with English legal characters who might fit the
title of “cause lawyer.”57 The phrase “champagne socialist” links his lawyering to
a ...
Austin Sarat, Stuart Scheingold, 2008
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Rant and Dawdle: The Fictional Memoir of Colston Willmott
Perhaps you are unfamiliar with the term champagne socialist, a pejorative
political term originating in England, used to describe a self-proclaimed advocate
of the poor or working classes, who claims to support a form of socialist ideology,
but ...
Bill Smith, William (Bill) E. Smith, 2011
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Kissinger: 1973, the Crucial Year
Like Allende (who was about to send him as ambassador to Paris), Neruda struck
me as the epitome of the “Champagne Socialist”—full of sentiment about the poor
of the earth, but relishing a high bourgeois life. Moving to Santiago one was ...
Today in new labour the text book socialist has been made redundant by the
champagne socialist! What had happened was the war had toughened people
up to be able to face up to the most challenging of condiƟons that society could
throw ...
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Wolves in Sheep's Clothing: The New Liberal Menace in America
As Martin Walker, one of his classmates, recalls, “He was criticized for being a '
champagne socialist' or a 'country-house revolutionary.' ” Q And this flirtation with
elite groups wasn't lessened by his status as a Washington journalist, even when
...
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D. H. Lawrence: Dying Game 1922-1930: The Cambridge ...
... (his two other literary idols were Meredith and Housman), Bynner was an
egalitarian and socialist - a champagne socialist according to Lawrence who in '
Quetzalcoatl' describes him as 'a bolshevist by conviction but a capitalist by
practice.
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CHAMPAGNE SOCIALIST»
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champagne socialist is used in the context of the following news items.
Euclid Tsakalotos: The Champagne Socialist Who Is Greece's New …
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has nominated the successor to outspoken Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis who announced his surprise ... «Breitbart News, Jul 15»
The Champagne Socialist Fallacy
'Champagne socialist,' 'limousine liberal', or my personal favourite 'bourgeois bohemian' are equivalent accusations aimed at people who ... «Bright Green, Jul 15»
Loss of hundreds of council homes for social rent will 'end up costing …
Is that North Korean, Vietnamese, Putin a Leftie within the Conservative Party or Champagne Socialist Middleband type? It was NOT a silent ... «Times Series, Jul 15»
The Indie Rebel Is Just a Hollow Cliché In a Leather Jacket
... star Charlotte Church's blog post defending her right to protest against austerity and denouncing critics calling her a "champagne socialist," to ... «Noisey, Jun 15»
'The way society's going, I fear for my babies' - Charlotte Church …
Labelled a 'champagne socialist' by right-wing critics (apparently an articulate young woman with wealth isn't allowed opinions on taxes or ... «So So Gay, Jun 15»
Deliciously Stella: Lessons in champagne socialism
... Stella – I wanted Deliciously Bella but that was already taken – to get some publicity for my first Edinburgh show, Champagne Socialist.”. «The Independent, Jun 15»
Actress morphs into France's new first lady
... bestselling tell-all memoir of their subsequent break-up, portraying the president as a cold-hearted egotist and champagne socialist, who was ... «The Local.fr, Jun 15»
Former MP Woodward admits: I DID have a butler
Many criticised his domestic arrangements, citing it as evidence that Mr Woodward was a 'champagne socialist' but he always refused to be ... «St Helens Today, Jun 15»
Good on you, Charlotte Church, for giving a damn
Isn't it better to be branded a gobby champagne socialist than to be a ... RT Davis branded her a “champagne socialist” (Church responded that ... «The Guardian, Jun 15»
From Left Bank to left behind: where have the great French thinkers …
But not a like for like comparison - one is a French academic, whilst the other is a brain-addled rambling champagne socialist in denial.... Oh ... «The Guardian, Jun 15»
