old money
老钱,旧钱,古钱,老本
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- : inherited wealth, especially wealth that confers status and social acceptance.
- : a family or forebears possessing such wealth.
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It’s full of the evidence of old money, but that money is gone now, and the house is crumbling.
So here I am in my requisite Lululemon pants, grunting along to an old hip-hop song at a most ungodly hour.
It would became one of the first great mysteries in the United States of America, as it was only then 23 years old.
And Epstein continues to steer money toward universities to advance scientific research.
To borrow an old right-wing talking point, these people are angry no matter what we do.
Speech, in this case, is our ability to spend money on a goofy entertainment.
Davy looked around and saw an old man coming toward them across the lawn.
His wife stood smiling and waving, the boys shouting, as he disappeared in the old rockaway down the sandy road.
Old Mrs. Wurzel and the buxom but not too well-favoured heiress of the house of Grains were at the head of the table.
Vicars' wives had come and gone, but all had submitted, some after a brief struggle, to old Mrs. Wurzel's sway.
But with all her advantages Miss Solomonson failed with the old lord, and she abuses him to this day.