Idiom
champagne taste on a beer budget
Meaning
Expensive desires or preferences which one lacks the finances to fulfill satisfactorily.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“He has champagne taste on a beer budget.”
“She loves buying expensive designer clothes, but she has champagne taste on a beer budget and often struggles to pay her rent.”
“Despite his modest salary, he insisted on living in a luxury apartment, clearly suffering from champagne taste on a beer budget.”
Examples
simple
“He has champagne taste on a beer budget.”
contextual
“She loves buying expensive designer clothes, but she has champagne taste on a beer budget and often struggles to pay her rent.”
complex
“Despite his modest salary, he insisted on living in a luxury apartment, clearly suffering from champagne taste on a beer budget.”
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