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These usages are arranged alphabetically, all having something to do with the theme of "snobbery, hybris, and better than thouism."  For fuller information about each usage, see the main list.  There are twenty-six files there.  Just click on to the appropriate letter.
 

all-in wrestler: sexual boaster

artificial silk: lawyers, but not practicing ones

big blow:  braggart

big girl's blouse: a walking nothing

Count of Monte Cristo: dressy to a fault

decked up like a bloody May horse:  floral patterns everywhere

dolled up fer a late wedd'n: of a flamboyantly dressed, no longer young woman

fur coat and no drawers

gaiters: the ones who can afford fine footwear and who wear it alike a coat of arms

ikey:  overdressed

Lady Muck of Muck Hall: a woman who puts on airs

Lady de Blobswitch: spiritual kin to Lady Muck

Lord Muck: authoritarian swell-head

Luke Har, a:  "received pronunciations," delivered condescendingly

Mayoress of Leeds style: totally above her station

plastic scouser:  suburbanites trying to keep a distance from the blue collar life of the inner city

plum in one's mouth, to talk with: "received pronunciations" and "school-driven" usages

Professor Messer:  always lecturing

Queen Anne Front and Mury Ann back: ridiculous social pretensions, and a closet full of skeletons

Queen o' ther Midden: a conceited woman

Rhubarb Vaselino: young man with a mirror and comb

talking in telephone numbers: dropping allusions to huge, mythical sums of money

woman with a new oven: the neighbors will neve hear the end of it.

SAYINGS (SNOBBERY, HYBRIS, AND BETTER THAN THOUISM)

We all new yer when yer had no arse in yer kecks.

she talks Blendalsahnds(plummier than thou)

Ee's gorran ed as big as Berkened

mutton dressed up as lamb(someone in fancy clothing all of a sudden)

simulated mink and lookin' a right scrubber(an unattractive person, regardless of the phoney furs)

Maggie hasn't changed her windows in years.  She still has an echo saying Gordon Killed in Khartoum

Big head, no bread in the house, or: lace curtains, no bread in the house, or: two coats and no knickers