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Well-heeled - meaning?
Hi, i would like to know the origin of the expression.
Why is it connected with heels?
I found that it means rich, is it right?
Thanks in advance.
10 févr. 2018 12:16
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It means that you have plenty of money to spend right now. "Rich" usually means that you have plenty of money all the time. "Well-heeled" may mean that you're rich and you always have money, or it may just mean that you have plenty of money right now.
10 février 2018
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http://grammarist.com/usage/well-heeled/
==>No one knows the exact origins of heeled in this use, but there are a few theories. One is that this sense of heeled has to do with shoes; a person who has nice shoes is well-heeled and hence well-off. Or our modern sense of well-heeled could come from mid-19th-century American-West slang, where well-heeled meant armed with a gun.
10 février 2018
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Anastasia
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Anglais, Français, Italien, Russe
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