Sentence examples for posh image from inspiring English sources

The year out has never quite shed its posh image.

When it challenged shoppers to "finish the sentence: 'I shop at Waitrose because …' #WaitroseReasons", it triggered a Twitter storm as internet jokers piled in to ridicule the brand for its posh image.

Waitrose provoked more gentle mockery of its posh image when it invited Twitter users to say why they shopped at the store, while Tesco was the laughing stock of the internet when – at the height of the horse-meat scandal – its customer services team signed off with the tweet: "We're off to hit the hay".

2. #WaitroseReasons: When the supermarket asked shoppers to complete the sentence: "I shop at Waitrose because …" using the hashtag #WaitroseReasons in September, it perhaps should have expected the subsequent tirade of jokes about the brand's posh image – though many have said the way Waitrose responded turned the campaign from disaster to success.

The online Political Quarterly magazine reckons the Tory party is gaining a common touch, despite its posh image.

The problems of that posh boy image were explored in the Guardian by John Harris.

Andrew Mitchell, appointed Government Chief Whip in the shake-up, quickly reinforced the Tories' posh party image by allegedly calling policemen guarding the Downing Street gates "plebs".

David Cameron will today try to tackle his "posh boy" image by promising to transform the life chances of young people who did not enjoy his privileged background.

Leader of the House of Lords and lord privy seal The Baroness of Beeston is the daughter of a factory worker, the antithesis to the "posh Tory" image.

In a party burdened with a posh-boy image, Dorries' "normalness" should be one of her major assets.

A year later, his turn as a charming but womanising book publisher Daniel Cleaver in Bridget Jones's Diary (2001) was proclaimed by Variety to be "as sly an overthrow of a star's polished posh – and nice – poster image as any comic turn in memory".