英语词汇codfish aristocracy的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	codfish aristocracy
词源	codfish aristocracy. Of all the fish that swim or swish In ocean’s deep autocracy, There’s none possesses such haughtiness As the codfish aristocracy. —Wallace Irwin It’s hard to think of any group haughtier than the Cabots and Lowells (who spoke only to God, according to another old poem), but the Boston nouveau riche who made their money from the codfishing industry in the late 18th and early 19th century apparently gave a grand imitation of them. At any rate, they were disliked enough to inspire the derogatory expression codfish aristocracy, for “any pretentious, newly rich person.”
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