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Idiom

beautiful people

Meaning

Fashionable, privileged, glamorous people, especially those belonging to international high society; the beau monde.

Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Examples

“The club is full of beautiful people tonight.”

“The party was filled with beautiful people, all wearing expensive clothes and drinking champagne in the garden.”

“The exclusive gala attracted the city's beautiful people, who gathered to see and be seen in the most opulent surroundings.”

Examples

simple

“The club is full of beautiful people tonight.”

contextual

“The party was filled with beautiful people, all wearing expensive clothes and drinking champagne in the garden.”

complex

“The exclusive gala attracted the city's beautiful people, who gathered to see and be seen in the most opulent surroundings.”

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