the four hundred

the four hundred
амер.
(the (upper) four hundred)
четыреста семейств (верхушка американского финансового и промышленного капитала) [выражение принадлежит "столпу" светского общества Нью-Йорка У. Макалистеру, заявившему в конце 80-х гг. XIX в., что к обществу принадлежат только четыреста семейств]

Mrs. Kane had become very intimate with a group of clever women in the Eastern four hundred... (Th. Dreiser, ‘Jennie Gerhardt’, ch. LXI) — Среди близких друзей миссис Кейн имелось несколько блестящих женщин - представительниц лучших семейств Новой Англии...

His name was Juvenal, and he wrote satires in which he flayed the aristocracy of the empire for their vileness... I once published a novel, ‘The Metropolis’, in which I did the same thing for the so-called "Four Hundred" of New York... (U. Sinclair, ‘Mammonart’, ch. XXIV) — Звали этого поэта-обличителя Ювенал. Он писал сатиры, в которых бичевал аристократию империи за все ее подлости... я однажды напечатал роман "Метрополис", в котором точно так же обошелся с так называемыми "четырьмястами семействами" Нью-Йорка...


Большой англо-русский фразеологический словарь. - М.: «Русский язык-Медиа».. 2006.

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