Meaning of white-telephone | Babel Free

Definitions

Characteristic of the Italian genre of film called white telephone; suggesting consequence-free lives of privilege.

derogatory, often

Examples

“Astaire and Rogers were fortunate: they embodied the swing-music, white-telephone, streamlined era before the Second World War, when frivolousness wasn't decadent, and when adolescents dreamed that 'going out' was dressing up and becoming part of a beautiful world of top hats and silver lamé.”

CEFR level