the upper crust

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: noun

[sing.+sing./pl.v.] (informal) the people who belong to the highest social class upper-crust adjective [onlybeforenoun]

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the upper crustEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus the upper crustEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary

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the upper crust