Trust me, the only real way to understand Chic is in hifalutin terms. |
It really was like sweating blood to try to talk reason into one so hopelessly unpractical and hifalutin as Sophy. |
Save hifalutin vocabulary for other lawyers, if you must, and speak to the jurors in plain English, she recommends. |
The stuffed buckram of Johnsonese had been succeeded by the mincing hifalutin of Mrs. Anne Radcliffe and her like. |
None of this hifalutin stuff, I rush to add, devalues or undermines profit in any way. |
I also miss a guy who talks about hifalutin ideas in low-slung language. |