culture vulture
a person with an excessive or pretentious interest in the arts.
Origin of culture vulture
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How to use culture vulture in a sentence
If my experience is any indication, the process is going to be a challenge for culture vultures.
This entails being more the culture vulture, exposing yourself to unique influences.
This makes you quite the culture vulture, wanting to expose yourself to artistic, culinary and socially fringed experiences.
British Dictionary definitions for culture vulture
informal a person considered to be excessively, and often pretentiously, interested in the arts
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Other Idioms and Phrases with culture vulture
An individual with a consuming or excessive interest in the arts. For example, A relentless culture vulture, she dragged her children to every museum in town. This slangy term may have been originated by Ogden Nash, who wrote: “There is a vulture Who circles above The carcass of culture” (Free Wheeling, 1931). [1940s]
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