gentleman's gentleman
Example Sentences
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Cramm emerged as a top player in both singles and doubles in the 1930s and quickly established a reputation as a gentleman’s gentleman on the court and off.
From New York Times • Aug. 24, 2011
But it was the bowler's general bearing and neatness which charmed the young writer almost as much as the name he'd been seeking for his newly conceived character of a gentleman's gentleman.
From The Guardian • Apr. 5, 2011
The daring British spy with "a licence to kill" is now as much a historical figure as the gentleman's gentleman or the amateur detective.
From The Guardian • May 31, 2010
In earlier Losey-Pinter films, the catalysts of doom were generally characters of a certain ambiguous authority, like the gentleman's gentleman in The Servant or the young girl at Oxford in Accident.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Captain had been a gentleman's gentleman, and his lady of no higher rank.
From Barry Lyndon by Thackeray, William Makepeace
