épater le bourgeois
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[edit] English
[edit] Alternative forms
[edit] Etymology
From French épater (“amaze”) le (“the”) bourgeois (“a member of the middle class”)
[edit] Verb
épater le bourgeois
- (literary) To scandalize, provoke the middle class.
[edit] French
[edit] Verb
- (idiomatic) to shake (or shock) middle-class attitudes
[edit] Conjugation
- see épater
