Gucci socialist
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Etymology
Noun
Gucci socialist (plural Gucci socialists)
- A person who claims to support the worker's control over the means of production, but has a lifestyle that does not match his/her beliefs.
- Synonyms: chardonnay socialist, gauche caviar, champagne socialist, silver-spoon socialist, smoked salmon socialist
- 1991, Victoria. Parliament. Legislative Assembly, Victoria Parliamentary Debates (Hansard).: Legislative Assembly:
- It is very much the Gucci socialist party that has lost contact with the average working man.
- 2008 September 24, Kenneth Allinson, Architects and Architecture of London, Routledge, →ISBN, page 328:
- In fact, as an old man, Goldfinger was largely forgotten, described by himself as demonised, and by others as embittered and a 'Gucci Socialist' hungry for the social significance of a knighthood.
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