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a plum in your mouth idiom UK(alsoplums in your mouth) a way of speaking that is typical of people of a high social class: She had elocution lessons as a child and as a result now speaks with a plum in her mouth. He's a bit like Hugh Grant without the plum in his mouth. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Class & class-consciousness in general anti-bourgeois anti-snob arriviste bougie gentrification gentrify go/come down in the worldidiom go/come up in the worldidiom petit bourgeois petty bourgeois pleb plebby the bottom of the heapidiom the gentry the petite bourgeoisie the upper crust underclass ungenteel ungentrified upper class
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