blue blood
Example Sentences
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It was Brown, a Rhode Island blue blood whose name now adorns an Ivy League university, who in 1790 financed Slater’s stolen ideas for a state-of-the-art cotton mill.
From Barron's
Long before Cignetti was laying waste to college football’s blue blood programs, his head coaching journey began in 2011 when he was hired by a once-proud Division II program called Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
But those blue bloods are now singing the blues after falling in the quarterfinals.
From Los Angeles Times
In the brave new world of college football, blue blood means nothing.
The Rose Bowl will match an ultimate upstart program in Indiana against a blue blood in Alabama.
From Los Angeles Times
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