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"etymology_text": "Popularized by Julie Connelly in a 1989 Fortune magazine cover story, by analogy with a real estate trophy building.",
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"ref": "1993 March, Sally Ogle Davis, “The good, the bad and the disasters”, in Ladies' Home Journal, page 57",
"text": "But don't expect this one to break up. Arnold [Schwarzenegger] got his trophy wife—a real-life Kennedy, his entreé to the top social echelons in the country—and he's not about to let her go.",
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{
"ref": "2008, Julia Llewellyn, The Model Wife, Penguin UK",
"text": "‘She's with her nanny.’ ‘Oh yeah, I forgot. You're a proper trophy wife now. Staff and everything. Well…’ She produced a bottle of cava from a plastic bag. ‘With no child to keep up appearances for, let's get ourselves in the mood.’",
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{
"ref": "2013, George G. Nyman, Love Lost in Time Relativity, AuthorHouse, page 12",
"text": "She was David's fourth wife. Twenty-four years his junior, they both knew why they were together. David was filthy rich, and Belinda was a trophy wife. In fact, this was her third time around in this career: Being a trophy wife.",
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"A wife, usually young and attractive, regarded as a status symbol for the husband, usually older and affluent."
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"(derogatory) A wife, usually young and attractive, regarded as a status symbol for the husband, usually older and affluent."
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"word": "arm candy"
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"translations": [
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "huāpíng lǎopó",
"sense": "young attractive wife who's a status symbol for her husband",
"word": "花瓶老婆"
},
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"sense": "young attractive wife who's a status symbol for her husband",
"word": "花瓶妻"
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"sense": "young attractive wife who's a status symbol for her husband",
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"word": "trofækone"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "young attractive wife who's a status symbol for her husband",
"word": "edustusvaimo"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "young attractive wife who's a status symbol for her husband",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "potiche"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "young attractive wife who's a status symbol for her husband",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "Vorzeigefrau"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "young attractive wife who's a status symbol for her husband",
"tags": [
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"word": "Trophäenfrau"
},
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"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"sense": "young attractive wife who's a status symbol for her husband",
"word": "אישה לקישוט"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"sense": "young attractive wife who's a status symbol for her husband",
"word": "אישה ייצוגית"
},
{
"code": "he",
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"sense": "young attractive wife who's a status symbol for her husband",
"word": "אישה לראווה"
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"word": "trophy wife"
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"text": "But don't expect this one to break up. Arnold [Schwarzenegger] got his trophy wife—a real-life Kennedy, his entreé to the top social echelons in the country—and he's not about to let her go.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2008, Julia Llewellyn, The Model Wife, Penguin UK",
"text": "‘She's with her nanny.’ ‘Oh yeah, I forgot. You're a proper trophy wife now. Staff and everything. Well…’ She produced a bottle of cava from a plastic bag. ‘With no child to keep up appearances for, let's get ourselves in the mood.’",
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},
{
"ref": "2013, George G. Nyman, Love Lost in Time Relativity, AuthorHouse, page 12",
"text": "She was David's fourth wife. Twenty-four years his junior, they both knew why they were together. David was filthy rich, and Belinda was a trophy wife. In fact, this was her third time around in this career: Being a trophy wife.",
"type": "quotation"
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],
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],
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"translations": [
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "huāpíng lǎopó",
"sense": "young attractive wife who's a status symbol for her husband",
"word": "花瓶老婆"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "huāpíngqī",
"sense": "young attractive wife who's a status symbol for her husband",
"word": "花瓶妻"
},
{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "young attractive wife who's a status symbol for her husband",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "trofækone"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "young attractive wife who's a status symbol for her husband",
"word": "edustusvaimo"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "young attractive wife who's a status symbol for her husband",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "potiche"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "young attractive wife who's a status symbol for her husband",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Vorzeigefrau"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "young attractive wife who's a status symbol for her husband",
"tags": [
"derogatory",
"feminine",
"often"
],
"word": "Trophäenfrau"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"sense": "young attractive wife who's a status symbol for her husband",
"word": "אישה לקישוט"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"sense": "young attractive wife who's a status symbol for her husband",
"word": "אישה ייצוגית"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"sense": "young attractive wife who's a status symbol for her husband",
"word": "אישה לראווה"
}
],
"word": "trophy wife"
}
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