lace-curtain 的定义
Sometimes Disparaging and Offensive.
- characteristic of or aspiring to the standards and attributes of the middle class: Her latest novel traces the rise of a lace-curtain Irish family in Boston.
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- After the curtain calls, Christopher comes back to explain a complicated math problem.
- They keep their heads low while running behind a large curtain covering the opening between two housing blocks.
- For anyone who cared to watch, the event and its denouement provided a graphic demonstration that the Iron Curtain was crumbling.
- They lifted her up, and when they saw that she was laced too tightly, they cut the stay lace in two.
- The last time a Pope addressed the parliament in Strasbourg was in 1988 when an Iron Curtain still divided the continent.
- She walked away toward another door, which was masked with a curtain that she lifted.
- On his head was the second-hand hat of some parvenu's coachman, gold lace, cockade and all.
- I seized the opportunity to watch what I supposed would be a most interesting interview, from behind a curtain.
- C was a Captain, all covered with lace; D was a drunkard, and had a red face.
- She thrust a bare, white arm from the curtain which shielded her open door, and received the cup from his hands.