单词 | the man in the street |
释义 | > as lemmasthe 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). ΘΚΠ 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. < as lemmas |
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