White collar meaning in English

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Definition

a white collar (worker): an office worker, a "professional" idiom

a collar: a part of a shirt at the top, next to the neck noun

Examples

"We don't get many white collars down here."

Exercise 1

Mr. Jiou seems surprised to see Icarus. He says "We don't get many white collars down here".

This means that:

The warehouse is running low on merchandise.

Management-level employees rarely visit the warehouse.

Mr. Jiou likes Icarus' shirt.

Mr. Jiou isn't paid enough.

I don't know

Mr. Jiou seems surprised to see Icarus. He says "We don't get many white collars down here".

This means that:

The warehouse is running low on merchandise.

This is incorrect. The warehouse has not got a shortage of product units.

Management-level employees rarely visit the warehouse.

This is the correct choice. Employees who do manual labor, such as moving merchandise around or operating machinery, are often referred to as "blue-collar" workers, while management-level employees and senior office workers are described as "white-collar".

Mr. Jiou likes Icarus' shirt.

This is incorrect. Mr. Jiou's use of the term "white collars" is idiomatic, not literal.

Mr. Jiou isn't paid enough.

This is incorrect. Mr. Jiou doesn't make any comment about his salary.

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