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Discover LudwigThe word 'posh' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to something luxurious, high-end, or considered to be of high quality. For example, "The hotel room was a real posh thing complete with a balcony overlooking the sea.
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The posh thing I find very uncomfortable.
"I think it's a kind of posh thing," said Ms Roberts, 26.
It's partly a posh thing, but mainly that, if they wanted to talk, they would not spend so much time with horses.
The posh thing – like the "rising star" thing, a tag that has been with her for the best part of a decade – is "just another label".
One of Latin's lexical hangovers has been to do that very posh thing of sweeping under the carpet any issues considered too grubby and earthy to be discussed frankly in polite company.
Virtually all my conscious life I had been involved in theatre – I had been a child actor – but as a young man who had experienced the 1960s, British theatre seemed remote from my aspirations in life – theatre was still a posh thing, a middle-class thing, something for an elite.
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I'm definitely a lot posher than I used to be, but I don't like posh things, particularly.
The story behind Julia Carling's marriage break-up, Anthea Turner's travails with Grant Bovey, Amanda Foreman posing nude... Tatler has recognised that these stories are more interesting than boring old posh people doing boring old posh things.
Yes, we still refer to posh things as an American made car from a company, GM, which the U.S. government saved and made profitable again.
What's the poshest thing you've ever bought?
7 The next-poshest thing you can do is have a freezing bathroom.
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