white-shoe
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9.7
- adjective
- /ˈwaɪtˌʃuː/
- US
:
de élite
- In his slate-gray suit and Dunhill tie, a platinum watch thin as caviar toast showing below one starched cuff, Robert was every inch the white-shoe gentleman.
- white-shoe firm
Examples
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Many young lawyers aspire to work for a white-shoe firm that caters to wealthy clients.
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At National Journal, Corine Hegland was planning a profile of the white-shoe lawyers who have been representing many of the Guantanamo detainees.
Blog text (34) -
Initially, he would have preferred that his son go to a white-shoe firm.
Academic text (2002) -
The Financial Times reported that the white-shoe firm had less-than-adequate disaster recovery planning.
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Would Cohen, once dubbed "the main man" by TheLawyer.com, agree to helm one of Wall Street's largest white-shoe firms again?
Academic text (2009) -
In other words, the salaries have for years been "bimodal," meaning they've generally sorted into two levels: the $160,000 earned by first-year associates at big, white-shoe law firms, and the $40,000-to-$65,000 range earned by lawyers at smaller law firms, government jobs, and so on.
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The prestigious law school prepares students for careers at elite white-shoe law firms in Manhattan.
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He joined a white-shoe investment bank, known for its connections to the conservative elite.
Synonyms
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7.2
Having a lot of money
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
White-shoe comes from the literal words white and shoe because wealthy East Coast students once wore smart white shoes to show they were 'rich' and from old families. So a white-shoe firm is a company or law firm linked to the wealthy, conservative, traditional elite.