bright young things
Promising fresh talent
Bright young things are fashionable, educated young people, especially those in artistic or intellectual circles.
The phrase evokes 1920s London society—the partying aristocrats and socialites of the Jazz Age—but applies to any generation's glamorous youth: The gallery opening attracted the usual bright young things.
Often carries a hint of irony about privilege or frivolity.
- ingenueArtless young woman
- bon vivantConnoisseur of life's pleasures
- high societyThe social elite
- glamorousAlluringly stylish and exciting
- socialiteProminent figure in fashionable circles
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Conservative faction within organization
old-timers · elder statesmen · greybeards · old hands · has-beens
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Pompous, self-important people
fuddy-duddies · frumps · wallflowers · dullards · squares
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