whitebread
adjective Informal: Disparaging.
1.
pertaining to or characteristic of the white middle class; bourgeois: white-bread liberals.
2.
bland; conventional.
Origin:
1975–80
1975–80
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white bread
c.1300, as opposed to darker whole-grain type; its popularity among middle-class America led to the slang sense of "conventional, bourgeois" (c.1980).
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