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Clapham|ˈklæpəm|
[The name of a district of south-west London.]
Clapham Sect: see sect n.1 4 b. Phr. the man on the Clapham omnibus: the ordinary or average man; the ‘man in the street’.
[1857Jrnl. Soc. Arts 1 May 348/1 So thoroughly has the tedious traffic of the streets become ground into the true Londoner's nature, that..your dog-collar'd occupant of the knife-board of a Clapham omnibus, will stick on London-bridge for half-an-hour with scarcely a murmur.] 1903Law Rep. (King's Bench Div.) II. 109 ‘Fair’, therefore, in this collocation certainly does not mean that which the ordinary reasonable man, ‘the man on the Clapham omnibus’, as Lord Bowen phrased it, the juryman common or special, would think a correct appreciation of the work. 1959Listener 30 July 162/2 It is ‘the man in the street’, ‘the man in the jury box’, or (to use the phrase so familiar to English lawyers) ‘the man on the Clapham omnibus’. 1965Ibid. 1 Apr. 474/1 The class character of our education will remain until..the scions of Lord Snow and the man on the Clapham omnibus attend the same comprehensive school. |