Trading Places
Exchanging social stations
Trading Places is a 1983 comedy film in which a wealthy commodities broker and a homeless street hustler have their lives switched as part of a bet between two rich brothers.
The title has become shorthand for any situation where two people exchange positions or circumstances: After the merger, we were trading places—I reported to her now.
- substitutionExchange of one for another
- swapExchange one for another
- economicsScience of resource allocation
- exchangeMutual giving and receiving
- alternativeAnother available choice
role reversal · fish out of water · social experiment · rags to riches · empathy · finance · Oscar · hierarchy · upward mobility · satire · barter · Wall Street · allegory · Coming to America · comedy · redistribution · Animal House · commerce
- 80s Pop CultureBack to the Future, E.T., Ghostbusters, Indiana Jones, The Breakfast Club
- Rags to RichesCinderella, Rocky, Aladdin, Slumdog Millionaire, Annie
Trading PlacesPrecious
Endearing name for beloved
Angela's Ashes · Les Misérables · Schindler's List · Oliver Twist
Trading Placesstaying put
Remaining in place
immobility · stagnation · entrenchment · caste system · Downton Abbey
Trading Placesstaying put
Remaining in place
standing still · fixed · immobile · static · stasis
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