épater le bourgeois
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from French épater (“amaze”) le (“the”) bourgeois (“a member of the middle class”).
Verb
épater le bourgeois
- (literary) To scandalize, provoke the middle class.
- 1987, Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students:
- All that was needed were the heroes willing to act out the fantasies the public now accepted as reality: the hero, as hedonist, who dares to do in public what the public wants to see. It was épater les bourgeois as a bourgeois calling.
- 1987, Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students:
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