Plum in Human Culture
Business
- In business, the color plum represents a business deal that is profitable—a plum contract. A plum job is a job that one is assigned to that has a high salary or the job may be a sinecure with good pay but not much work to do.
Credit Cards
- American Express has a credit card called a Plum credit card that has a higher credit limit and a lower interest rate than a regular credit card; it is only available to someone with a good credit rating.
Music
- The Electric Prunes is a psychedelic rock band formed in Seattle in 1966 that was popular among the hippies during the Summer of Love in 1967. They disbanded in 1970 and reformed in 1999.
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Famous quotes containing the words plum, human and/or culture:
“Some bring a capon, some a rural cake,
Some nuts, some apples; some that think they make
The better cheeses bring ‘em, or else send
By their ripe daughters, whom they would commend
This way to husbands, and whose baskets bear
An emblem of themselves in plum or pear.”
—Ben Jonson (1572–1637)
“All human life is here, but the Holy Ghost seems to be somewhere else.”
—Anthony Burgess (b. 1917)
“The treatment of African and African American culture in our education was no different from their treatment in Tarzan movies.”
—Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)