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beautiful people

idiom
Meaning

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


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.

Anchors to
Related idioms7entries
  1. 01

    all things to all people

    Someone or something that entirely satisfies the expectations of everyone, no matter how diverse and conflicting those expectations may be.

  2. 02

    make beautiful music together

    To have a great romantic relationship with each other.

  3. 03

    man of the people

    A man, usually a celebrity or political leader, who shows understanding of and sympathy for the concerns of ordinary people, and who has a rapport with and acceptance by them.

  4. 04

    people mountain people sea

    crowded or jam-packed with people

  5. 05

    people person

    One who interacts skilfully with other people and who receives satisfaction from such interaction.

  6. 06

    some people

    Expresses disapproval at the actions of a person; a disapproving response to a person doing something silly, bizarre, nonsensical or ill-mannered.

  7. 07

    woman of the people

    A woman who shows understanding of and sympathy for the concerns of ordinaries, and who has a rapport with and acceptance by them.

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