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Updated: June 19, 2025
'Tain't called Rag Alley now, though! It's called Hifalutin Terrace! Them tenements you talk of were pulled down more'n a year ago and these houses put up in their place," said the newsboy. "Dear! dear! dear! what changes! And what became of the poor tenants?" asked Old Hurricane, gazing in dismay at the inroads of improvement. "The tenants? poor wretches! how do I know?
No, not fer a considerbul spell lessen we has one grand, hifalutin' tornader. Yo' hyar me!" "I sho' does hyar yo' Mis' Lucy, an' I sho' 'grees wid yo' ter de very top notch. Dere's gwine ter be de very dibble 'scuse me please, ma'am, 'scuse me, but ma feelin's done got de better of ma breedin' ter pay ef things go on as dey've begun since de Madam an' dat dawg invest deyselves 'pon Severndale.
And a quick glance at the gruff, gray old man in the corner plainly betrayed that, in Christie's opinion, Aunt Betsey made a bad bargain when she exchanged her girlish aspirations for a man whose soul was in his pocket. "Jest like her mother, full of hifalutin notions, discontented, and sot in her own idees. Poor capital to start a fortin' on."
Let me tell you something, you two: there's hardly a reporter in this city who isn't more honest than the paper he works for." "Hifalutin nonsense," said Dr. Surtaine. "From your point of view. You're an outsider. It's outsiders that make the newspaper game as bad as it is. Look at 'em in this town. Who owns the 'Banner'? A political boss. Who owns the 'News'? A brewer.
That paper, though clever, always seemed to him intolerably hifalutin'! It was doubtful whether he would get to Ascot this year. And his mind flew for a moment to his promising two-year-old Casetta; then dashed almost violently, as though in shame, to the Admiralty and the doubt whether they were fully alive to possibilities.
Olive settled back in her chair, and yielded up her creed of married life briefly, trenchantly. "Reed, if I owned a husband, I'd focus my mind upon his breakfasts and his buttonholes and his entertainment of an evening. That's what men want, not hifalutin' mind cures delivered at long range." Then she repented. "Still, I'm not fair to Mrs. Brenton, Reed. She doesn't interest me in the least."
Galway's jam in the ruins the same hifalutin compliment being your own when you were nursing your wound, as you will remember. "Here's wishing you luck from the whole town, way out here in nowhere. "As ever yours, "James R. Galway. "P.S. Belvy Smith wants to know if you won't write just one story. I told her you were too busy for such nonsense now. But she refuses to believe it.
He did more than this; he cured Webster of all the florid foolery of his early rhetorical style. Of all men that ever appeared before a jury, Mason was the most pitiless realist, the most terrible enemy of what is in a slang term as vile almost as itself called "Hifalutin"; and woe to the opposing lawyer who indulged in it!
"You hain't never killed yourself with hard work, by the looks o' them hands." "Oh, I've been going to school." "A'huh! I thought you had. You talk pretty hifalutin' fer a real workin' man. I tell ye what I think you're a rich man's son, and you've run away." "Come, gal, get that coffee bilin'," called the mother. Mrs.
The muzhik is a very matter-of-fact practical person, totally incapable of understanding what Americans call "hifalutin" tendencies in speech and conduct, and as he listened to the preaching of the new Gospel doubts and questionings spontaneously rose in his mind: "What do those young people, who betray their gentlefolk origin by their delicate white hands, their foreign phrases, their ignorance of the common things of everyday peasant life, really want?
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