chattering class

American  

noun

1. well-educated members of the upper-middle or upper class who freely express especially liberal opinions or judgments on current issues and events.

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Etymology

Origin of chattering class

First recorded in 1980–85

Example Sentences

South: It’s not just the chattering class.

From Los Angeles Times

“This ascent has confounded most financial analysts and the chattering class, whose frames of reference did not quite anticipate a company of this size and scale growing at such a ferocious and unrelenting rate,” he said.

From Barron's

The "Call Her Daddy" conversation was not the contentious tête-à-tête the chattering class has come to expect after decades of cable news bloviating somehow came to represent meaningful political coverage.

From Salon

Nonetheless, “the chattering class of Pyongyang certainly will, from one source or another” know the Olympic results as they come in, said John Everard, the UK’s ambassador to North Korea from 2006 to 2008.

From BBC

But the romantic fantasy about an American heartland replete with simple but good people had powerful sway over the imaginations of the chattering class.

From Salon