trophy wife
nounEtymology
Popularized by Julie Connelly in a Fortune magazine cover story in 1989, by analogy with a real estate trophy building.
Definitions
A wife, usually young and attractive, regarded as a status symbol for her husband,…
A wife, usually young and attractive, regarded as a status symbol for her husband, usually older and affluent.
- 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.
- "Women considered trophy wives are accomplished and ambitious," she reported, "in both their careers and their lives. […] On what was trophy wife bottomed, as they say at the Supreme Court?
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