| The clubs here are peopled with artists and literary types rather than toffs and wideboys. |
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| A few of their guests may well be toffs, but a lot seem to be self-made businessmen or corporate high-fliers. |
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| And even in London, plenty of young toffs would have been wearing dinner jackets. |
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| South Swindon people have a lot more in common with the fox than they do with toffs on horseback. |
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| I'm here to show them that they have got it all wrong and that we are not all titled toffs. |
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| Impatient for progress and impatient of toffs, we just have no sympathy for the fact that they can't get along with the world as it is changing. |
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| Still in ancient times, but in Rome, do you remember the imperial purple worn so proudly by the Roman toffs. |
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| Two toffs were promenading towards Knavesmire, attired in shiny toppers and spotless tails. |
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| It's often perceived as an aristocratic indulgence, a sport for toffs and the idle rich. |
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| The sight of several toffs sipping skinny lattes in the crowd suggest those Arsenal fans made it in. |
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| Lilian, tall and slim and intellectual, seemed ill at ease among the debs and toffs. |
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| Miliband was supposed to be fighting Bullingdon toffs with plums in their mouths. |
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| Reports suggest some southern toffs plan to stay at home rather than venture north of Watford, scared by tales of chilly climes, cloth caps and whippets. |
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| Turn back the clocks a few months and we were worrying about traffic congestion, or calculating how to make a fast buck at the expense of well-off southern toffs. |
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| Not Cornwall, across the river Tamar, which is foreign parts, nor Zummerzet where all they toffs live. |
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| She is therefore a victim and thereby relieved of much of her class guilt and no longer hateful, although still contemptibly repressed like all the other toffs. |
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| To feel that way towards toffs today makes you at best an anachronism, at worst a freak, as I was reminded recently when I appeared at a literary festival. |
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| Tatton in Cheshire came top, and it is amusing to learn that certain Sheffield residents are better off than the toffs from Kensington and Chelsea. |
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| The refined aesthete Barry Humphries has acclimatized himself to English society, but the monsters he gestates rampage on his behalf and terrorize the toffs. |
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| A generation of rich and eccentric toffs with more money than sense block out what's happening in the world by immersing themselves in one party after another. |
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| A ban won't just affect a few toffs and their rich country chums. |
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| His rumpled blokeishness could help to persuade voters that the Tories are more than a bunch of unfeeling toffs. |
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| As many have observed, it is surprising that, in the second decade of the 21st century, the toffs should be in charge again. |
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| Crowds of toffs gathered in big country houses and set off for the moors to blaze away at red grouse, a bird unique to Britain and whose fast, low flight is reckoned to provide the best game-shooting sport going. |
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| In the face of retrograde Labour efforts to portray his party as a cabal of moronic toffs, Mr Cameron confessed his posh background and expensive education. |
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| Just as Labour overcame its distaste for those it would once have seen as rapacious capitalists and wicked press barons, so Tory toffs overcame theirs for people they used to treat as social inferiors. |
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| This year's almanack cover contains two images – its famous woodcut of top-hatted toffs at the crease and Ben Stokes thumping a ball to the boundary, tattoos cascading from his Adidas-branded shirt sleeve. |
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| The first is class resentment of a party of the toffs. |
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| A REPORTER AT LARGE about prizefighter trainer Teddy Atlas... From the corner toffs of the Regency period to the mobbed-up boyos of the forties and fifties, the trainer is a background figure, the unheeded Polonius. |
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| British tommies, pommy toffs, upper class and lower, all are convincingly created by this excellent reader. |
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| Yet protocol meant some toffs sweltered in their formal suits and tophats. |
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| According to those Yankee Doodles, us Brits are all la-di-da toffs. |
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| And world famous spoofer Christopher Guest, himself an English lord, toffs it up wonderfully as the Lord Chancellor consistently patronised and scandalised by Mrs Henderson. |
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| The perceived wisdom is that the Young Toffs supported Neil's rectorial campaign. |
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