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social climber
(redirected from social climbing)

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Basil Fawlty stands as one of the greatest comic creations ever, a snobbish, miserly, xenophobic, sexually repressed and paranoid misanthrope obsessed with social climbing, he was perfect for Cleese's repertoire of up-tight ticks and social mores.
Hyde), transmit sentiment (The Longest Journey), disinherit within heredity (Joyce), express the maternal sublime (Elizabeth Bowen), encourage social climbing (Brideshead Revisited) and interpret the maternal through property (Banville).
Social climbing Sidney Hopcroft and his over-houseproud wife Jane - well played by Tom Han-dley and Grace Rigby - are entertaining guests with a degree of panic.
 
 
 
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