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go/come up in the world idiom informal (US alsomove up in the world) to have more money or a better social position than you had before: 飞黄腾达;发迹 Roger and Ann have gone up in the world - these days they only ever travel first-class.罗杰和安发迹了——现在他们旅行只坐头等舱。 SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Class & class-consciousness in general anti-bourgeois anti-snob arriviste bougie gentrification gentrify go/come down in the worldidiom heap petty bourgeois pleb plebby plebeian the bottom of the heapidiom the gentry the petite bourgeoisie the upper crust underclass ungenteel ungentrified upper class
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