smart set

noun

1. sophisticated, fashionable people as a group.

   a shop catering to the smart set.

smart set

noun

1. (functioning as singular or plural) fashionable sophisticated people considered as a group

Word History and Origins

Origin of smart set¹

First recorded in 1885–90

Idioms and Phrases

A fashionable social group, as in This restaurant has been discovered by the smart set. This idiom may be obsolescent. [Late 1800s]

Related Words

• aristocracy 
• blue blood 
• jet set 
• upper class