| 单词 | poor little guy |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspoor little guy poor little guy n. U.S. colloquial the ordinary individual, the ‘man in the street’. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > mediocrity > [noun] > mediocre person mediocrity1694 mediocrist1779 mediocritist1797 plug1848 little guy1939 poor little guy1955 1863 C. Reade Hard Cash III. xiii. 270 I wouldn't speak to you in the street for fear of disgracing you; I am such a poor little guy to be addressing a gentleman like you.] 1955 Bridgeport (Connecticut) Sunday Post 14 Aug. a16/7 By loading down the audit forces with detail work and the package audit, less audits will be made, and then mostly to the poor little guy. 1967 Boston Sunday Herald 26 Mar. 1. 9/7 Only the poor little guy is subject to the zoning code. 1988 W. R. Garrett in A. Shupe & J. K. Hadden Politics Relig. & Social Change II. vii. 137 The angel didn't go where the king was but where the poor people were, which means that this message is not for the big shots but for the poor little guys, which means the oppressed. < as lemmas |
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