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GAUCHE-CAVIAR [2 records]

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Record 1 2003-03-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Vocabulary
DEF

Wealthy left-wing activists.

CONT

Only those who are so stinking rich that money doesn't matter supported the Democrat's opposition to tax cuts. But Republicans ... will still support tax cuts for those limousine liberals. With all that extra money in their pockets, maybe they will put it to more productive uses than propping up the rejected policies of the Democratic party. (Washington Times Editorial "The Richest 1 percent", December 18, 2002).

CONT

Just as the old limo liberals of the 1970s made everyone else suffer for their principles ... the new limo libs want to make the rest of America shoulder their fancies (Rich Lowry, The new limousine liberals, townhall.com, February 28, 2003).

Key term(s)
  • limousine liberals
  • limo lib
  • limo lefties

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vocabulaire général
OBS

Voir aussi «gauche caviar».

Key term(s)
  • gauche-caviar

Spanish

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Record 2 2003-03-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Social Organization
  • Political Theories and Doctrines
DEF

The left-liberal chattering classes stridently denounced Mr. Asper's allegedly excessive power over the media. Yet this is the same clique that advocates foreign-ownership restrictions. But if the Canadian media indeed are concentrated in a few hands, Ottawa's foreign-ownership rules are to blame.

OBS

to chatter: to utter rapidly and purposelessly.

OBS

chattering class: a slightly pejorative reference to the "talking heads" on television and to writers in the left-wing papers. Compare "radical chic"

OBS

radical chic: title of a novel by Tom Wolfe that holds up to ridicule the champagne left.

Key term(s)
  • chattering classes

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organisation sociale
  • Théories et doctrines politiques
CONT

Quinze ans après la fin de la Gauche prolétarienne, les anciens «maos» ont répudié la révolution. [...] Les voilà experts en communication, vedettes des médias, ou conseillers des hiérarques socialistes. [...] En 1970, ils se croyaient l'avant-garde de la classe ouvrière. En 1988, ils sont la gauche-caviar.

Key term(s)
  • gauche caviar
  • gauche cachemire

Spanish

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