champagne problem
nounEtymology Because champagne is a luxury product; compare champagne socialist.
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Figuratively The need to make a decision between alternatives that are both desirable.
- It's a champagne problem, but for Duhamel, a problem nonetheless.2007, Best Life (volume 4, number 6, July-August 2007, page 86)
- These stories both reflect and reinforce destructive stereotypes, painting work-family conflict as a champagne problem enjoyed by upper-middle-class women in white-collar jobs.2010, Joan Williams, Reshaping the Work-Family Debate:
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