champagne taste on a beer budget
Wants beyond means
Champagne taste on a beer budget is a humorous, pejorative way of characterizing someone who has expensive habits but not the means to sustain them.
- oxymoronSelf-contradicting phrase device
- aspirationalStriving toward ideals
- luxuryExpensive nonessential comfort
- designerOne who plans appearances
- extravaganceExcessive, wasteful spending
metaphor · quixotic · yearning · window shopping · irony · juxtaposition · elite · keeping up with the Joneses · frugality · patrician · penny-pinching · middle class · wishful thinking · consumerism · overspending · living beyond one's means · hyperbole · paycheck to paycheck
alignment between desires and means
champagne taste on a beer budgetlow maintenance
Needing little attention
attitude toward spending and lifestyle
champagne taste on a beer budgetsimple living
Intentional reduction of consumption
minimalism · thriftiness · penny-pincher · tightwad · asceticism
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