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单词 the man in the street
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the man in the street
P5. the man in the street (also the man on the street): the ordinary or average man (or, in extended use, person), esp. as distinguished from the expert or specialist. Similarly the woman in the street. Also attributive (usually hyphenated).
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the world > people > person > man > [noun] > ordinary or average man
Richard Roe1593
Tom Stiles1681
John Doe1756
the man in the street1831
the next man1848
Everyman1901
the man on the Clapham omnibus1903
slob1910
John Citizen1918
average Joe1940
Joe Blow1941
Joe Public1942
Joe Doakes1943
Joe Soap1943
Joe Bloggs1969
Joe Sixpack1972
everyguy1976
the world > people > person > woman > [noun] > ordinary or average woman
the woman in the street1831
Everywoman1903
society > society and the community > social class > the common people > [noun] > one of the common people
Jackc1390
fellowa1400
commonerc1400
populara1525
plebeianc1550
ungentle1562
Tom Tiler1582
roturier1586
vulgarity1646
little man1707
pleb1795
man of the people1799
the man in the street1831
snob1831
man1860
oickman1925
1770 Appeal to Public on Behalf S. Vaughan 83 He..supposed the noble duke at the head of the treasury..was something different from a man in the street.
1795 Trial J. H. Tooke 379 The Judges upon the Bench have no more right to transgress it [sc. a statute] than any man in the street.]
1831 C. C. F. Greville Mem. 22 Mar. (1874) II. 131 The other [side affirms] that the King will not consent to it, knowing, as ‘the man in the street’ (as we call him at Newmarket) always does, the greatest secrets of kings.
1854 R. W. Emerson Eloquence in Wks. (1906) III. 192 The speech of the man in the street is invariably strong, nor can you mend it by making it what you call parliamentary.
1898 J. E. C. Bodley France II. iii. v. 259 It is the man in the street and the democracy generally that the fall of a Ministry fails to move.
1900 A. M. Fairbairn in Examiner 21 June 327/2 The man in the street..may be a very excellent person, but his very ordinariness puts a long way between him and an ample and distinguished manhood.
1926 J. Galsworthy Silver Spoon iii. xi. 305 She had the political cynicism of the woman in the street.
1928 Amer. Speech 4 134 The American newspaper man..speaks a patois bewildering to the man on the street.
1962 A. Nisbett Technique Sound Studio vii. 130 A sort of convention has arisen whereby ‘man-in-the-street’ interviews are cut together by simple editing.
1973 Observer 4 Feb. (Colour Suppl.) 15/4 He really wanted to please the man on the street and the man on the street knew it.
2003 S. Brown Free Gift Inside! 41 Those who purport to speak on behalf of the customer, the ordinary Joe, the regular gal, the man in the street.
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