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The thin upper crust convinced the loaf was baked for them.
means The small group with the most power, skill, wealth, or status in a given field.
from From French elite, from Latin eligere, to pick out — literally the chosen ones, plucked from the pile.
Same rootShares ancestry with elect and eligible.
Plural insultOften used as a sneer, rarely a boast.
Military flexElite units exist mostly to be called elite.