gentleman's C
noun1
An academic pass grade unfairly awarded to an otherwise failing student because of social advantages, such as a privileged family background.
- As a scholar, he was content to squeak by, passing his courses with a "gentleman's C" and an occasional B.1992, Russell Freedman, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 20:
- I always got the same grade: a C. It was not a "gentleman's C," it was just a C.2007, Thomas F. Bayard, No Cats in Vietnam: The Memoir of a Straightleg Engineer, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 28: