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 Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 10:34 pm Post subject: |
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"Occupationally beautiful." This is not a common expression -- yet -- but was evidently coined by a writer named Guy Trebey in a New York Times story on September 17, 2006. It begins, "Almost nobody � not the rich, not the celebrated, not the occupationally beautiful � has any true sense of how they�re perceived."
The occupationally beautiful must be people who make their living by being easy on the eyes. Models, actors, ESL teachers.
"Minimogul" is not a widely used term, but just means a small-scale mogul, someone who would like to be Donald Trump but isn't.
"Work off a psychic debt" is also not a common term. To work off a debt is to repay a loan or other debt with labor rather than money. A psychic debt would be a debt not of money but of something else -- maybe guilt or some other obligation. If you quote a larger passage, maybe we can tell more about this particular psychic debt.
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