upper crust

upper crust
a) The topmost layer of a bread, pastry dish, or other item with a hardened coating.

She went to get her tarts . . . but some one had stolen all the fruit out of them by lifting up the upper crust.

b) The social elite.

I judged from your remark about the diligence and industry of the high Parisian upper crust that it would have some point.


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