bright young people

See also: Bright Young People

English

Alternative forms

• Bright Young People

Noun

bright young people pl (plural only)

1. (historical, often capitalized) Synonym of bright young things, a youth culture in 1920s London.
   • 2007, Jon Savage, Teenage, Viking, →ISBN, page 248:

     Like the American collegians, the Bright Young People stoked the media's new obsession with youth. They were the first British youth culture to be defined in aspirational terms, as they heralded the application of adolescence as an ideal beyond biology.