poor little rich girl

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Noun

poor little rich girl (plural poor little rich girls)

1. (idiomatic) An unhappy young woman from a wealthy background.
   • 2003, Svetlana Boym, Ninochka, page 172:

     One is a cheerful and spunky orphan, another is a poor little rich girl. (The poor little rich girl speaks with a British accent. The spunky orphan wears her baseball cap backwards, so you don't have a problem figuring out who's who.)

   • 2006, Dorothy Stephens, Kwa Heri Means Goodbye: Memories of Kenya 1957-1959, page 96:

     Not all of the girls in my Guide Company were poor little rich girls. Mandy was a poor little poor girl, a mousy waif who lived out Thika Road, far from Muthaiga.

   • 2010, Michelle L. Levigne, Have Yourself a Faerie Little Christmas:

     So, are you a poor little rich girl, slumming it and hiding from boyfriends who only want your trust fund instead of you?