épater le bourgeois
verbEtymology
Borrowed from French épater le bourgeois (“amaze the bourgeois”).
Definitions
To scandalize, provoke the middle class.
- All that was needed were the heroes willing to act out the fantasies the public now accepted as reality: the hero, as hedonist, who dares to do in public what the public wants to see. It was épater les bourgeois as a bourgeois calling.
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