country cousins
Kin from farmland
Country cousins are relatives or acquaintances from rural areas, especially when viewed from an urban perspective.
The phrase often carries a gentle condescension—implying someone unsophisticated, unfamiliar with city ways, or charmingly naïve: Our country cousins visited Manhattan and gawked at the skyscrapers.
It can also describe anything provincial or behind the times compared to a more cosmopolitan counterpart.
- boorsIll-mannered, crude people
- hicksUnsophisticated country people
- hillbilliesRural mountain people
- relativesThose connected by blood
- relationsConnections or dealings
provincialism · rustic · pastoral · down home · small town · agricultural · kinfolk · quaintness · yokels · rubes · folk traditions · unsophisticated · simplicity · naivety · backwoods · back forty · kinsmen · peasants
country cousinscity slickers
Urban dwellers, countryside-naive
sophisticates · urbanites · cosmopolitans · metropolitans · man about town
country cousinshigh society
The social elite
jet set · glitterati · fashionistas · bon vivants · social butterflies
country cousinssophisticates
Worldly, cultured individuals
jet-setters · men of the world · women of the world · bon vivants · socialites
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