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social climber
(redirected from social climbing)

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See: philistine


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And he lays some emphasis on unattractive qualities of Augustine, such as his social climbing and political scheming.
Despite suggested warnings to the contrary, the benefits of social climbing appear to far outweigh the costs--Jeremy's disaster with Christine seems salvageable in the end.
Part of the problem is that however groundbreaking a book ``Vanity'' was in the overall history of English literature, tales of ruthless social climbing through vicious British snobbery have been drags on the market for the century and a half since.
 
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