词汇 | arty-farty |
释义 | Idiom arty-farty British, informal, American, informal something or someone that is arty-farty tries too hard to seem connected with serious art, and is silly or boring because of this.Rob's friends were a couple of arty-farty types who talked endlessly about the decline of the modern American novel. arty-farty adjective pretentious, artificially cultural US, 1967arty-fartyPretentious or haughty. Use of this phrase usually indicates the speaker's annoyance. Primarily heard in UK. I'm sorry, honey, but I'd rather go to a ball game then be dragged to another arty-farty lecture. |
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