bright young thing

Language: en

Meaning: (idiomatic,sometimescapitalized)One who isyouthful,clever,eager, andhigh-spiritedin manner andattractivein appearance.1869,R. D. Blackmore, chapter 10, inLorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor:Mr. Faggus gave his mare a wink, and she walked demurely after him, abright young thing, flowing over with life, yet dropping her soul to a higher one, and led by love to anything; as the manner is of females.1902,Bret Harte, “Golly and the Christian”, inCondensed Novels Second Series: New Burlesques:And even as her pure young voice arose above the screams of the departure whistle, she threw a double back-somersault on the quarterdeck, cleverly alighting on the spikes of the wheel before the delighted captain."Jingle my electric bells," be said, looking at thebright young thing, "but you're a regular minx—"1918,Stephen Leacock, “The New Education”, inFrenzied Fiction:"So you're going back to college in a fortnight," I said to theBright Young Thingon the veranda of the summer hotel. "Aren't you sorry?""In a way I am," she said, "but in another sense I'm glad to go back. One can't loaf all the time." . . .How full of purpose these modern students are, I thought to myself.1952January 14, “The Press: Strictly Personal”, inTime, retrieved22 August 2014:YOUNG COLLEGE MAN, travelled, slightly peeved and irked, not disenchanted, would relish hearing frombright young thingswith gay outlook, brilliant notions.1994March 20, Nigel Cope, “Bunhill: Above the crowd without a net”, inThe Independent, UK, retrieved22 August 2014:Charles Wigoder, the 34-year-old chief executive of Peoples Phone, the mobile telephone business, is very much abright young thing—the kind of businessman who features in magazine articles called '40 under 40', alongside other rising stars who have done unlikely things at unusual ages.2007Dec. 3,Janet Maslin, "Dear Alfred, Gertie and Mummy-snooks: Love, Noelie" (book review ofThe Letters of Noël Coward),New York Times(retrieved 22 Aug 2014):As abright young thing—which, it could be argued, is what he remained until almost his dying day—Noël Coward wrote letters filled with effusive glee.2013August 3, “Revenge of the nerds”, inThe Economist‎[1], volume408, number8847:Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, wherebright young thingsin jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.; (historical,oftencapitalized)Any of a group ofbohemianyoungaristocratsandsocialitesin 1920s London.2016, Eloise Millar, Sam Jordison,Literary London‎[2], Michael O'Mara Books,→ISBN:A set of youngsters from entitled backgrounds sharing a strong desire to buck against convention, theBright Young Thingsincluded the children of some of the oldest and wealthiest families in England (some of whom still appear in gossip magazines today: the Guinnesses, the Mitfords, the Tenants).

Examples:

EN: Why don't you do something? You're a bright young thing.
ES: ¿Por qué no haces algo al respecto?
EN: Have a seat. And on a happier note, I'm to meet your bright young thing.
ES: Bueno, quiere entrevistarme para el libro que está escribiendo sobre ti y la adorable Dra. Brennan.
ID: Yang menyenangkan, aku akan bertemu Dokter Sweets yang muda dan pintar.
EN: I just hired this bright young thing,
ES: Yo acabo de contratar a esta brillante joven promesa
EN: Lady Sybil was a bright young thing.
ES: Lady Sybil era joven y vivaz.
ID: Sybil sangat berbakat.
EN: I can't claim to have known her all that well, but she was always such a bright young thing.
ES: No puedo afirmar haberla conocido del todo bien, Pero ella siempre fue una joven brillante.
EN: You were such a bright young thing.
ES: Eras una jovencita tan brillante.
EN: I suppose I'm thinking, does Nancy, a bright young thing, really want to bury herself away on a ... let's face it, a primitive Mediterranean island?
ES: Supongo que estoy pensando, ¿Nancy, una joven brillante, realmente quiere enterrarse lejos en una... enfrentémoslo, una isla mediterránra primitiva?
EN: Within that, I would place you as an anti-materialist, maybe a bit of a bright young thing once, but I think that ship has sailed, don't you?
ES: Dentro de eso, te colocaría como una anti-materialista, tal vez una joven con un pasado brillante, pero creo que ese barco ya se fue, ¿verdad?
EN: She was... She was a bright young thing.
ES: Era... una joven brillante.
EN: Such a bright young thing.
ES: Una cosa joven tan brillante.
EN: She was a bright young thing.
ID: Dia perempuan muda yang ceria.
EN: It's left to her mom (or it could be her next-door neighbor) to set up our bright young thing for a magical, revolutionary final thought, as she sees the girl in the garden.
HI: यह एक जादुई, क्रांतिकारी अंतिम विचार के लिए हमारी उज्ज्वल युवा चीज़ को स्थापित करने के लिए उसकी माँ के लिए छोड़ दिया गया है (या यह उसका अगला पड़ोसी हो सकता है), क्योंकि वह बगीचे में लड़की को देखती है।
EN: And this bright young thing is Jesse, she's one of our great up-and-coming stars - here at Sports X.
ID: Dia salah satu bintang baru yang cemerlang di Sports X.
EN: You're the one who's not a bright young thing.
ID: Kau yang bukan pemuda cerdas.

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