toffs

Worth noting that this word also has class connotations, in that only toffs at Oxford called it soccer.

Hacking Anonymous gives them a way of justifying their hacker lifestyles to the toffs that rule them.

That sounds more like the Brits have been socialized into letting the toffs get away with stealing.

This applies to the great unwashed only, and not the rich, posh toffs like Larry.

The British empire was mostly run by upper-class British toffs, and still extraordinarily culturally influential.

The whole premise of the early films is that he is a working-class guy who polishes up better than the toffs.

Even before it was bought by a far right Japanese outfit, The Economist always bullsh*tted whatever the interests of the English Toffs required.

A trick to get the unwashed masses to subsidise the toffs.

You could compare it to the UK's House of Lords, where seats are (unbelievably to me) hereditary - passed down from toffs to their children.

They are laughing at the dainty affectations of the Leawoof toffs.

No one likes it when the chav kid shows up the toffs (but the bosses liked it, and really, they were the ones that mattered).

The only exception is the FT (not always good, but their staff actually understand business at some level...surprising given that they mostly hire toffs too).

Tofferies are things done by toffs that show they are toffs, where "toff" is a snooty, upper crust, elitist, aristocratic twit who holds commoners in contempt.

The "blue collar" law scholars in "grubby" banking and money fields have always treated the conlaw set as "slightly clueless toffs"

So one should dislike it for the right reasons: not because it's an Americanism, which it isn't in the first place, but because it's an invention of 19th century Oxbridge toffs who stuck "-er" after the first syllable of everything as a social-class shibboleth.

He shrugged off the power of bullshit stories such as "bendy bananas" and "Romanian squatters", despite the fact that they were in the Sun (proles), the Mail (proles with pretensions of intelligence), the Spectator (unintelligent toffs), and the Telegraph (obedient middle class).