toffee-nosed

• “The builder flapped his right hand in a gesture of despair, said, “Bloody toffee-nosed creep,” and retreated down the steps, carrying his stepladder.”

  Simon & Schuster: Portobello

• “Insults have really gone downhill since Monty Python's "you vacuous, toffee-nosed, malodorous pervert!”

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• “Buskers on the streets play and sing and look for tips, white-gloved hotel doormen usher us into the street and look for tips, Cockney taxi drivers look for tips, toffee-nosed waiters hand my dad a bill and look for tips on top of the outrageous price for eggs and sausages.”

  Simon & Schuster: Late, Late at Night

• “He helped popularise the great working-class riposte to the toffee-nosed union code but many decried him as a northern caricature.”

  The Guardian: Tonight's TV highlights

• ““I got to the page where reference was made to a ‘toffee-nosed twit’,” she said.”

  A little more creeping censorship: the T word | Diane Duane's weblog: "Out of Ambit"

• “How about "What makes you think you know anything at all about New York, you toffee-nosed, blue-blooded git?”

  Making Light: The New York Times gives Harold Ford, Jr. enough rope

• “There's none whatsoever that this is 'toffee-nosed Lymington'.”

  The Guardian: Is Lymington the snootiest town in Britain?

• “Many would surmise it is from toffee-nosed or the like.”

  Dale's Academy of Political Correction: Ban Word 'Toff'

• ““Is this what we pay our rates for,” asked thousands of people pretending to be more enraged than they really were by this disgusting cash handout to some toffee-nosed London tart.”

  Archive 2008-11-01

• “After all these years I finally learn the meaning of the insult "toffee-nosed.”

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