looking down her nose at (the) hoi polloi...

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(and they don't even notice her!?...)




“I come from the sort of family in which, at the age of ten, I was told I must always say hoi polloi, never "the hoi polloi," because hoi meant "the," and two "the's" were redundant -- indeed something only hoi polloi would say.”
Anne Fadiman, Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader




(yes!...we've been here before...)


update:
( thanks to walkingMarj and dutchdelight for generous and discreet visit...just say hello next time...there may be time for a coffee...;-)
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