trophy wife

Meaning

Noun

• A wife, usually young and attractive, regarded as a status symbol for the husband, usually older and affluent.

Origin

• in a Fortune magazine cover story, by analogy with a real estate trophy building.{{cite-web
• |title=The CEO’s Second Wife
• |author=Julie Connelly
• |work=Fortune Magazine
• |date=August 28, 1989
• |url=http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1989/08/28/72407/index.htm
• |passage=Powerful men are beginning to demand trophy wives. The more money men make, the argument goes, the more self-assured they become, and the easier it is for them to think: I deserve a queen.
• {{cite-web
• |title=ON LANGUAGE; Trophy Wife
• |date=1994-05-01
• |work=The New York Times
• |author=William Safire
• |authorlink=William Safire
• {{cite-book
• |title=The New American Dictionary of Business and Finance
• |entry=trophy wife
• |year=1990
• |publisher=Penguin
• |author=Jay M. Shafritz
• |author2=Daniel Oran
• |page=476
• |isbn=0451628063