champagne socialist
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.73 in modern English
30
Scrabble Score
18
Letters
6
Syllables
13
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- ""The champagne socialist wants everybody to be equal upon the higher plane that suits him, utterly ignoring the fact that there are not enough champagne, green turtle, and truffles to go round.""
- "People deploy the phrase 'Champagne socialist' a lot online. They smirk at their computer screens, shrewdly slipping around comment boards imploding egalitarian arguments with a single phrase."
- "Being soft on crime is fashionable among champagne socialists. Within their circles, there are few easier ways to win social clout than to declare that the police ought to be literally abolished, or to rhapsodize that what criminals need, more than anything else, is more leniency and understanding."
- "As a consequence of these opinions, a close friend calls me a champagne socialist. He says I’m conflicted and self-contradictory. He mock-quotes me with "redistribute wealth, just not mine.""