gentleman and scholar
Refined educated person
A gentleman and scholar is a compliment for someone who has done you a favor or shown good character.
The phrase combines two traditional markers of male virtue—refined manners and intellectual cultivation—but today it's usually playful or ironic: Thanks for covering my shift, you're a gentleman and a scholar.
The full form "gentleman and a scholar" is equally common.
- courteousShowing respectful consideration
- paragonFlawless model to emulate
- exemplarTypical perfect instance
- culturedEducated in arts, manners
- man of lettersErudite author or scholar
honorable · man of honor · educated · respectable · good breeding · chivalry · beacon · epitome · erudition · magnanimity · pillar · Renaissance man · philosophy · tact · good manners · polymath · humility · civilized
gentleman and scholarphilistine
Art-dismissing ignoramus
ignoramus · dunce · anti-intellectual · lowbrow · know-nothing
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