trophy wife

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A wife, usually young and attractive, regarded as a status symbol for her husband, usually older and affluent. derogatory,idiomatic,informal
    — […] while Mrs. Scott-Baxter, his fourth (and trophy) wife, blonde and young and bored, glowered at the Baxter spawn like a mother mink in a mink farm, just waiting for a jet to strafe the facility, affording her an excuse to feign terror and eat her young.

词形变化

trophy wives plural

词源

Popularized by Julie Connelly in a Fortune magazine cover story in 1989, by analogy with a real estate trophy building.
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