white-shoe
[hwahyt-shoo, wahyt]
- of or relating to members of the upper class who own or run large corporations: white-shoe bankers; a conservative white-shoe image.
Origin of white-shoe
First recorded in 1975–80; apparently from the white shoes popular as moderately formal wear among suburban men c1980
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Dutifully, she went to work for a white-shoe law firm, then became deputy general counsel for a Wall Street investment firm.
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The white-shoe firm is cutting back on bankers and traders, and doubling down on the old-fashioned brokerage business.
Logline: A young New-Jersey-born lawyer competes with her wealthier colleagues at a white-shoe Manhattan law firm.
And what about people who live in the South, the hub of the white-shoe rule, where there is warm weather year round?