well-breeched

comparative more well-breeched · superlative most well-breeched

1. slangWealthy.

   Here he always turned his musings away from unpleasant fact and played even harder at being the well-breeched man on the town.

   1985, Eileen Jackson, The Secret Bluestocking, page 165

   3 more examples

   That was the general opinion of Blaisthwaite, though only a powerful, well-breeched man would dare say it aloud and then not too often.

   1950, Ralph Bates, The Dolphin in the Wood, page 149

   Your market gardener is not a well-breeched man, dependant as he is on the imponderables of glut, the inequities of distribution, and the greeds of wholesaler and retailer.

   1954, Thomas Firbank, Log Hut, page 194

   What he saw was a well-breeched man holding the reins of a thoroughbred horse, a man whose dignity did not preclude his saddling the pony of a ragged priest. It confused him.

   2010, P. J. Keogh, In Those Blighted Fields, page 242