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social climbing
noun[ U ]
disapprovinguk /ˌsəʊ.ʃəl ˈklaɪ.mɪŋ/ us /ˌsoʊ.ʃəl ˈklaɪ.mɪŋ/
the act of trying to improve your social position by being very friendly to people from a higher social class: 趋炎附势，试图挤入上流社会
Have you ever seen such a shocking display of social climbing?你见过如此令人震惊的挤入社会上流的行为吗？
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social climber
Beth was stung by criticism that the couple had engaged in opportunistic social climbing.
They annoyed some people with their posh voices and eccentric manners, behaviour some mistook for social climbing.
After all, if you have ambitions of your son becoming prime minister, you have to be prepared to do a spot of social climbing in order to help him achieve your dream.
Her penchant for aggressive social climbing was exposed, with her obsession for sending excessive gifts to the great and the good whom she claimed were her close personal friends.
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
go/come up in the worldidiom
petit bourgeois
petty bourgeois
pleb
plebby
the bottom of the heapidiom
the gentry
the petite bourgeoisie
the upper crust
underclass
ungenteel
ungentrified
upper class
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