man1 nounman2 verbman3 interjection
manman1 /mæn/ ●●● S1 W1 noun (plural men /men/) 
WORD ORIGINman1
Origin:
Old EnglishEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- A real man wouldn't be scared of commitment.
- Any other soldier would have told him to pull himself together and be a man.
- Are you man enough to admit that you've been lying?
- Ask the men to meet here at 11:00 for a briefing.
- Bush was a Yale man.
- He's a meat-and-potatoes man.
- He had a very successful business and died a rich man.
- Hey, what's happening, man?
- If I were a gambling man, I'd put money on the Saints.
- In an effort to prove his manhood he had taken to stealing cars and drinking alcohol.
- Jericho is the oldest continuously inhabited city known to man.
- Many of the men said they would vote for the strike.
- Tania was at the party with her new man.
- The Dutch reclamation of their land is a classic case of man's struggle against nature.
- The gas man came by to read the meter.
- The grandeur of the mountains is a constant reminder of man's insignificance.
- You never see Fuller Brush men any more.
- You wouldn't understand how she feels -- you're a man!
- I was getting ready to leave when a man opened the door.
- If men alone had the vote, President Bob Dole would now be running for re-election.
- It was a tall man with an aquiline nose and thick dark hair.
- Prescriptions for men cost more than for women aged between 25 and 84 years.
- There the man held Sammler against the wall with his forearm.
- They want to know, Who is this man?
- Two men so different in appearance and manner, yet both prepared to sacrifice her feelings on the altar of their ambition.
- When I arrived at the shelter, I found the right man.
THESAURUS
an adult male human: · a young man· Sir Edmund Hillary was the first man to climb Mount Everest.
(also bloke/chap British English) informal a man: · She’d arranged to meet a guy in the bar.· Alex is a really nice bloke.
formal a man – used as a very polite way of talking about a man: · an elderly gentleman· Please could you serve this gentleman?
a young male person, usually a child or a teenager: · a teenage boy
old-fashioned informal a boy or young man: · When I was a young lad, I wanted to join the army.
a teenage boy or young man – used especially in news reports to show disapproval: · Gangs of youths roam the streets.
formal a man – used especially by the police or in science and research contexts. The adjective male is much more common than the noun: · We are investigating the death of an unidentified male.· The condition is usually found only in males.
American English informal a man – a very informal use: · You could tell there was something creepy going on with that dude.
relating to men adjective a male teacher, singer etc is a man. Male jobs are the kind of jobs that men typically do: · Most science teachers are male.· a male nurse· We are trying to recruit more women to do traditionally male jobs such as engineering.
considered to be more typical of a man than of a woman: · He had a very masculine face.· masculine aggression
having the qualities that people expect and admire in a man, such as being brave and strong: · He took off his shirt, revealing his manly chest.· It isn’t considered manly to cry.· In the portrait, the King looked manly and in control.· He was bronzed and athletic, with manly features and a steady gaze.
behaving in a way that is traditionally typical of men, for example by being strong and tough and not showing your feelings – used especially either humorously or to show disapproval: · On the outside he may seem to be very macho but inside he’s very sensitive.· Stallone always plays macho men.· He’s far too macho to drink mineral water.
Longman Language Activatora man an adult male person: · There were two men and a woman in the car.· He had a very successful business and died a rich man.· You wouldn't understand how she feels -- you're a man!
informal also bloke British informal a man: · Dave's a really nice guy.· Is he the guy who used to live next door to you?· That Simon seems like a decent bloke.· He bought the car from a bloke at his office.
a man - use this as a polite way of talking about a man: · Can you serve this gentleman please, Sarah?· Mr Marks, an elderly gentleman, was travelling with his daughter.ladies and gentlemen (=used in speeches): · Ladies and gentlemen, may I present Dr Nelson Mandela.
informal also the lads British informal a group of men who are very friendly with each other or who work together or play in a team together: · I won't be home until late -- I'm going out for a drink with the boys.· The lads played really well -- we were unlucky not to win the game.
a man - use this especially when talking about characteristics that are typical of men and not of women: · The film is a brilliant analysis of the typical American male.· Haemophilia is a condition found only in males.
a male person is a man or a boy - use this especially when talking about jobs and work: · Most of the science teachers are male.· Salaries have increased for both male and female graduates.· The Health Service needs more male nurses.
a man who does not behave in a traditional male way or have traditionally male attitudes towards women, for example one who stays at home to look after the children or is happy to show his feelings: · I wouldn't say Tom was exactly a new man - he just enjoys looking after kids more than I do.· He considered himself to be a New Man, sensitive about things such as PMS and bad hair days.
for men designed for men: a man's watch/suit/shirt etc: · She was barefoot and wearing a man's shirt over her jeans.men's shoes/clothes/magazines etc: · a shop selling handmade men's shoes
for men - use this about jobs or activities that men usually do or places that are for men only: · More women are entering traditionally male jobs like engineering.· male pursuits such as football and golfall-male: · For the first time women are being allowed into this previously all-male school.male-only: · the male-only setting of the St Andrews Sporting Club
typical of men masculine behaviour or attitudes are considered to be more typical of a man than of a woman: · He wanted to say he was sorry but his masculine pride wouldn't let him.· Violence is an extreme form of traditionally masculine behaviour.
looking or behaving in a way that is typical of a man, by being strong, full of energy etc, and therefore sexually attractive: · The girls were all gazing adoringly at his muscular, virile young body.· Craig was a younger and more virile version of his father.
having the qualities that people expect and admire in a man, such as being brave and strong: · In the portrait, the King looked manly and in control.· He was bronzed and athletic, with manly features and a steady gaze.
a man who is macho behaves in a way that he thinks a man is expected to behave, for example by being brave, treating women badly, or not showing emotion: · On the outside he may seem to be very macho but inside he's very sensitive.· He's far too macho to drink mineral water.
a man who is brave and strong - use this especially when you are criticizing someone for not being like this: · Any other soldier would have told him to pull himself together and be a man.a real man: · A real man wouldn't be scared of commitment.he-man (=a very brave, strong man): · a he-man like Arnold Schwarzeneggerbe man enough to do something (=be brave and strong enough to do something): · Are you man enough to admit that you've been lying?
relating to young men who behave in a typically male way, for example men who drink a lot of alcohol and spend a lot of time thinking or talking about sex: · The amount of laddish humour on TV these days can get a bit tedious.· He most famously played the part of Gary, the laddish flatmate in "Men Behaving Badly".
what you call a man when you speak to him formal used especially in formal letters or when speaking to customers, when you do not know a man's name: · I'm sorry sir, we're not serving chicken tonight. Can I recommend the fish?Dear Sir: · Dear Sir, I am writing to apply for the position of Sales Executive advertised in yesterday's "Times".
British /Mr. American used before a man's family name when you are speaking or writing to him and want to be polite: · Mr Elstone, please may I borrow your pen?· Dear Mr. Pritchard, I am writing to remind you that your rent is now two months overdue.
British informal /buddy American informal use this to talk to a man in a friendly way. Mate and buddy are also often used when talking to a man you do not know, when you are annoyed with him: · You look like you need a drink, mate.· "Can I borrow your car" - "No chance, mate."· It's good to see you, buddy! How've you been?· Hey, buddy! That's my parking space you took.
American spoken use this when you call out to a man and you do not know his name: · Hey, Mister! Look out!
adult someone who is no longer a child - use this to talk about someone who is at least 18: · The cost of the trip is $59 for adults and $30 for children.· Since I left school, my parents have started to treat me like an adult.· Children cannot be admitted to the museum unless they are accompanied by an adult.
an adult - used especially by children or when you are talking to children: · Grown-ups are so boring! All they ever do is talk!· At home there was always a grown-up to turn to if you were in trouble.
an adult man or woman - used especially when you think someone is not behaving in the way an adult should behave: · Elsie had never seen a grown man cry before.· He' s a grown man - he should be able to cook for himself!· She's crazy -- a grown woman letting a girl order her around like that.
a full-grown or fully grown animal has reached its full adult size: · A full-grown blue whale may be up to 30 metres long.· Many of these animals die before they are fully grown.· Will my tank be big enough for all these fish when they are fully grown?
man use this about a man who is nice to look at but in a fairly ordinary way: · Paul is very good-looking, but he's too arrogant.· She showed me a photo of a good-looking young soldier.
especially written use this about a man who is good-looking, especially one who is tall and looks strong: · Lena had fallen in love with a rich, handsome Frenchman.· My brother was two years older than me, taller, and more handsome.· He looks really handsome in his uniform, doesn't he?
use this about a man who is good-looking, especially in a way that makes people sexually interested in him: · He was a tall attractive man in his mid-forties.find somebody attractive: · I don't find those body-builders with huge muscles attractive at all.
especially American, spoken use this about a young man who looks nice and is sexually attractive: kind of cute spoken: · I don't know why she won't go out with him. I think he's kind of cute.
especially spoken use this to emphasize that a man is extremely attractive in a sexual way: · Look at that guy over there. Isn't he gorgeous?
especially spoken use this about a man who looks pleasant and friendly but is not extremely attractive: · I suppose he's quite nice-looking, but he's not really my type.· Chris is a nice-looking guy with a good sense of humor.
informal very attractive and strong-looking: · Have you seen the new sports instructor? He's really hunky.· The show stars hunky Kevin Sorbo as Hercules.
good-looking with strong features that are often not perfect: · Ann admired his rugged good looks.· He was solidly built and looked like a rugged quarterback.
very attractive, especially because you have a particular feature that is attractive and unusual: · He had a striking profile, with a large nose that reminded people of a Roman statue.
to be a strong-looking, attractive man - used especially in humorous descriptions: · Her husband was a fine figure of a man - tall, broad-chested and with a bushy black moustache.
good-looking and well-dressed in a way that makes people notice you - used especially in literature: · She left her family to move to Argentina with her lover, a dashing polo player.· Steve was looking very dashing in a light-coloured suit.
knowing about life, people, and the world · Paul liked to turn to more experienced people for advice.experienced in · My elder brother was a lot more experienced in these matters than I was.
informal if you say that someone has been around , you mean that they have had experience of many different situations and many different types of people and so they can deal with new situations confidently and easily: · When you've been around as long as I have you realize some things aren't worth getting upset about.have been around the block (a few times): · I've been around the block a few times, and I think I know when someone's trying to cheat me.
to be someone who knows a lot about life, has had a lot of different experiences etc and is not easily shocked by things: · Look, Ray, you're a man of the world - I'm sure you've been in situations like this before.
someone who is sophisticated has a lot of knowledge and experience of clever, fashionable things, and shows this by the way they talk and behave: · Everyone at the party was sophisticated and well-educated.· The play is intended for a sophisticated audience.
someone who is streetwise has had enough experience of life in big cities to know how to deal with difficult or dangerous people and situations: · Kids these days are much more streetwise than we ever were at their age.· Copeland is a streetwise cop who knows how to take care of himself.
having a lot of experience and knowledge about life and the practical rather than the moral reasons for people's actions: · For a priest he was surprisingly worldly.· She was much older and more worldly than I was.
: hardened criminal/cynic etc someone who has had a lot of experience dealing with difficult situations and is therefore less affected by them: · Even the most hardened criminal would have been shocked by the brutality of the crime.· Hardened foes of abortion are unlikely to be persuaded by her arguments.
someone who is hard-bitten has developed a hard, unsympathetic character because their experience of life has been difficult and unpleasant: · Miss Davies is not really the tough, hard-bitten businesswoman that she appears to be.· Jensen's experience in prison left him hard-bitten, cynical, and ruthless.
to be independent in the way you think to make decisions or form opinions without expecting other people to help or approve of you: · Parents should encourage their children to think for themselves.· The purpose of this question is to force students to think for themselves.· 'You're going to have to start thinking for yourself,' said David sternly.
to have a strong character and strong opinions that are not influenced by other people's: · She's a woman with a mind of her own, who says what she thinks.· But Mansell has a mind of his own, and he was adamant he would make racing his career.
to have a strong character and be confident about what you want to do: · Though not yet 15, Sara knows her own mind, and has already decided on a career.· I'm in my mid-thirties and ought to know my own mind by now, but I'm scared of getting married.
to be confident of your opinions, without letting other people influence you - use this when you approve of someone like this: · Stan was intellectual, confident and above all, his own man.· She didn't want to quarrel with him, but made it plain that she was her own woman now, with her own life to lead.· Sheila is very much her own woman. She'll listen to everyone and then make up her mind for herself.
to like someone to think someone has good qualities so that you feel friendly towards them: · I've always liked Sally - she's a lot of fun.· Everybody liked Mr. Schofield, but he wasn't a very good teacher.· I never really liked her - she was always a bit stuck-up and condescending.
to like someone very much, especially when you have known them for a long time: · You're very fond of Tyler, aren't you?· Over the years, the old man grew very fond of his nurse.
to like someone that you have known for a long time, so that you would be upset if they left you: · We've grown quite attached to you, Annie, and we'll be very sorry to see you leave.· Nurses can easily get too attached to their patients.
informal to like one person in particular more than the other people in a group: · She's always had a soft spot for her youngest grandson.· I've had a soft spot for Janet ever since she took my side in the argument I had with Jimmy.
to like someone because of a particular quality that they have, especially when other people do not notice that quality in them: · Tom's so innocent. He only sees the good in everyone he meets.· I can't figure out what Doug sees in her.
spoken someone that you like because they have the same attitudes that you have, or like the same things that you like: · I like the way she runs her business - a woman after my own heart.
if two people hit it off , they like each other, especially as soon as they meet: · Art Howe asked him to come for an interview for the coaching job, and the two men hit it off immediately.· Those two didn't really hit it off at first, did they?hit it off with: · You can't expect to hit it off with everyone you meet.
the people who are married two people who are married to each other, or who are having a romantic relationship: · An elderly couple live next door.· They're a nice couple, aren't they?married couple: · Shirley and Bob are a young married couple with two small children.
a man and woman who have recently married: · Everyone left at about midnight, leaving the newlyweds alone at last.· The hotel seemed to be full of newlyweds.
formal a married couple: as man and wife: · Terry and Meena aren't married but they live together as man and wife.pronounce somebody man and wife (=say that two people are officially married): · Mom burst into tears as the minister pronounced us man and wife.
· Are you married or single?· We've been married for 25 years.married to · Geraldine was married to the richest man in France and still pretended she couldn't afford a new outfit.happily married · Richard is happily married with two young children.
the woman that a man is married to: · My wife's career is very important to her.· Have you met the Ambassador's wife?first/second etc wife: · He remarried after his first wife died of cancer.
the man that a woman is married to: · I don't like Francesca's husband very much.· How many husbands would stay at home and take care of the children while their wife goes out to work?first/second etc husband: · Gary's her second husband.
formal the man or woman that someone is married to - use this in legal or official contexts: · You may choose to pay income tax jointly or separately from your spouse.
the person that someone lives with in a romantic relationship - use this whether they are married or not: · Have you met my partner, Ray?· The office party is on Friday, but partners aren't invited.
ordinary people ordinary people are people who are not rich, famous, or powerful: ordinary people/folk: · Politicians don't care about ordinary people.· In the eighteenth century ordinary people had no access whatsoever to education.ordinary guy/man/woman etc: · In the film "Phenomenon", John Travolta plays an ordinary guy who becomes a genius overnight.
an average person is a typical example of a person: · The average family spends about £50 a week on food.· Foreign affairs do not usually interest the average voter.· There is concern that twenty years from now, the average American won't be able to afford to send his or her children to college.
a typical person who has ordinary opinions, likes the same things as most other people etc -- used especially by journalists: · The advertising industry has to know exactly what the man in the street is thinking.· This latest legislation will not really affect the man or woman in the street.
all the ordinary people in a society or country, especially those without special knowledge of a subject: · Very little official information is given to the general public.· She is a poet who is admired by other poets but not well-known to the general public.· Organizers of the President's funeral plan a large ceremony for the general public, and a small, private affair for his family.
the ordinary members of an organization, especially a political organization, when compared with its leaders: · The rank and file has lost confidence in the party leadership.· conflict between union leaders and the rank and file at an Alfa Romeo factory
the ordinary members at the bottom of a political or religious organization: · The decisions were taken by the party leadership without consulting the grass roots.
an old person · The old lady was rather deaf.· When the militia was called up, old men and boys were drafted as well.dirty old man (=an older man who is too sexually interested in younger women) · Charles wondered if he was becoming a dirty old man.grumpy old man (=an old man who is easily annoyed and complains a lot) · My grandfather was an old-fashioned, bigoted, grumpy old man.
old people - used especially to talk about the needs of old people or services for them: · Right now, only 6 percent of the elderly in the United States receive public assistance.· The programs have been highly successful at reducing poverty rates among the elderly.
also senior American someone who is above the age of 60 - use this to talk about older people as a group, and their particular interests, rights etc: · Admission prices are £6 for adults, £5 for senior citizens and £3 for children.· Many seniors have very active lives.
British an old person who has stopped working and receives money from the government: · Many pensioners cannot afford to heat their homes in winter.· Old age pensioners can travel free on the buses.
a retired person is someone who is old and has stopped working: · The company specializes in holidays for retired people.· Our neighbours were an old retired couple.retired judge/engineer/police officer etc: · Among those attending was a retired federal judge from Philadelphia named Bennett Mayall.
American informal an old man - often used humorously: · What can I do for you, old timer?· The three-day event is a chance for old timers to get together and swap war stories.
people in general people in general: · People are getting very worried about rising crime.· I don't want people to feel sorry for me.most/some people: · Most people hate writing essays, but I quite like it.
all people - use this to make general statements about how people behave, what people like etc: · Don't you like ice-cream? I thought everyone liked it!· Everybody has the right to a good education.· Everyone knows that smoking is bad for you.
American spoken people: · Folks around here have been pretty angry about the governor's actions.most/some folks: · Some folks think the schools are better now than they were twenty years ago.
all the people in the world, considered as one group: · Pollution is threatening the future of the human race.the entire/whole human race: · The entire human race could be wiped out by nuclear war.a member of the human race: · Until then, no member of the human race had ever been able to make a map of the whole world.
people in general - used especially when talking about their history and development, or how something affects their continued existence: · The Americans exploded the first nuclear weapon in the history of mankind.· Travelling into space was a great advance for mankind.· In the interests of humankind we must stop destroying our planet.
people in general - use this when you are comparing humans with other living things. Some people do not use this word because it can seem offensive to women: · Jericho is the oldest continuously inhabited city known to man.· The grandeur of the mountains is a constant reminder of man's insignificance.· The Dutch reclamation of their land is a classic case of man's struggle against nature.
people in general - use this especially when you are talking about people's rights to be treated like all other humans and not suffer cruelty, hunger etc: · 30% of humanity live in conditions of terrible poverty.a crime against humanity: · The General was accused of committing crimes against humanity.
ordinary people who do not belong to the government, the police etc, and do not have any special rights: · The castle is open to the public during the summer.· The public ought to know how the money from taxes is being spent.a member of the public: · Some of these politicians never meet ordinary members of the public.the general public: · Tickets will become available to the general public in June.
people in general - use this to talk about people as an organized group with a system of laws and accepted behaviour: · Islamic society· The judge described Smith as 'a danger to society'.member of society: · We want our students to become useful and responsible members of society.
: young/old/rich/country/city etc folk people of a particular type or from a particular area, considered together as a group: · The young folk need to have a place where they can go in the evenings.· Stella's ambition is to get a job working with old folk.· His parents were hard-working country folk.
use this about conditions, problems, and changes that affect all the people in society: · Rising unemployment led to even more social problems.· social changes that brought women even greater freedom
a rich person a person who is very rich, usually because they own land, property etc or because they have a family that has always been rich: · Taylor is a man of means. His family owns several apartment blocks in New York.· These were people of means who could afford to pay expensive legal fees.
a person who has a million pounds or dollars, or more: · The money to keep the hospital open was provided by a London millionaire.· I can't afford a new car just now. I'm no millionaire, you know.
a person who has many millions of pounds or dollars: · Louis Berg is a multi-millionaire who made his money in the newspaper business.
a rich and powerful person in a particular industry: · Foundations set up by magnates such as Carnegie and Rockefeller provided most of the funding for the arts in the US.steel/oil/shipping etc magnate: · She married a Texan oil magnate.· the property magnate who owns the Empire State Building
someone who makes a lot of money from a particular industry or business - use this about people who you think do not deserve to earn so much because they do not run their industry well, do not provide a good service etc: · They do not resent the city fat cats, but believe top businessmen deserve success.· Why should those fat cats get rich through our efforts?
informal use this when you are saying in a humorous way that someone has a lot of money: · Nowadays, if you're not a moneybags, some places don't want to have anything to do with you.
all the people who are rich in a particular country, society etc - use this especially when you are comparing them with people who are poor: · Under this government the rich seem to have got richer and the poor poorer.· Democracy gave the poor, as well as the rich, a part to play in governing the city.the rich and famous: · a tour around the Hollywood homes of the rich and famous
people who are rich, especially through owning land, property, or valuable possessions over a long period of time, who have a lot of power or influence in society: · Private health care should not be only for the wealthy.· The hotel stood by a lake, where the wealthy went to go fishing or pigeon shooting.
rich people and poor people - use this expression when you are comparing both groups: · The widening gap between the haves and the have nots is becoming very noticeable in New York.
someone who does not talk much someone who is quiet does not talk much. Quiet can be used generally about someone's character, or about a particular situation in which someone does not talk: · The new girl's quiet, but nice enough.· Steven's a very quiet boy who loves reading.· Tyrell was quiet early in the evening, but as he got to know us, he really opened up.
written if someone is silent , they do not say anything. Silent is used before the noun if you are talking about someone's general character, and after the verb if you are talking about a particular situation: · Mrs. Welland was a mild silent woman with no strong opinions.be/remain/stay silent: · Alice was laughing and joking, but her sister remained silent.
formal someone who is taciturn usually does not talk much, so that they may seem a little unfriendly or bad-tempered: · The ship's captain was a taciturn man who spoke only to give orders.· It was unlike her to be so taciturn - she must have had something on her mind.
someone who usually does not talk much, because they only speak when there is something important to say: · My father was a man of few words, but when he spoke everyone listened.· Neighbors remember her as a woman of few words whom everyone respected.
unwilling to talk to other people or unwilling to talk about a particular subject: · Irma was a shy and reticent child.reticent about: · Auster was somewhat reticent about it at first, but finally admitted he was working on a new book.
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COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY
Come on, be a man now. No more crying. He wasn’t man enough (=strong or brave enough) to face up to his responsibilities. This is one of the worst diseases known to man. I waited all day for the gas man.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES The Minister was kidnapped by armed men on his way to the airport. The 20th century was called the century of the common man (=ordinary people). officers and enlisted men Nylon is a man-made fibre. He walked out of the courtroom a free man. Wynford was an architect of genius. Jones was known as soccer’s hard man. a bald-headed man (=having no hair) in a shiny suit He’s sick of being cast as the hard macho man in films. Who was the mystery woman spotted on board the yacht with the prince? He does a one-man show in Las Vegas. The car park is for staff only. The party try to portray the prime minister as a man of the people (=someone in power who understands or is like ordinary people). He’s a remarkable man. The removal men have been in and out all day. Life is hard for us women. one of the most wanted men in China the ordinary working manCOLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
Come on, be a man now. No more crying. He wasn’t man enough (=strong or brave enough) to face up to his responsibilities. (=make a boy or young man start behaving in a confident way) Running his own business has really made a man out of Terry.
Running his own business has really made a man out of Terry. This is one of the worst diseases known to man. (=people who lived at a particular stage of human development)
I waited all day for the gas man. The Minister was kidnapped by armed men on his way to the airport. (=the people who take your rubbish away)· Which day do the bin men come?
The 20th century was called the century of the common man (=ordinary people). (=man who delivers goods to people)· He got a job as a delivery man for a hardware store.
· He died a hero on the battlefield.
(=the perfect one for you)· We can help you find the house of your dreams.
officers and enlisted men· Men’s fashions have not changed much in 50 years.
Nylon is a man-made fibre. He walked out of the courtroom a free man. Wynford was an architect of genius. (=a piece of gingerbread in the shape of a man)
Jones was known as soccer’s hard man. a bald-headed man (=having no hair) in a shiny suit· I know Tom to be a man of honour and integrity.
· Your son’s a lucky man, having a father like you.
He’s sick of being cast as the hard macho man in films. (=someone who looks after buildings and equipment for a school or organization)
· By 1957 a third of married women were working.
(=the best player in a match)· Henri was named man of the match.
(=people today)· Modern man gets much less exercise in his daily life than his ancestors.
Who was the mystery woman spotted on board the yacht with the prince? (=someone with a particular name) some guy named Bob Dylan
some guy named Bob Dylan He does a one-man show in Las Vegas. The car park is for staff only. The party try to portray the prime minister as a man of the people (=someone in power who understands or is like ordinary people). literary (=with a lot of energy or violence)
(=someone with strong moral ideas)· He is the only candidate who has demonstrated that he is a man of principle.
He’s a remarkable man. The removal men have been in and out all day. (=one with three, four etc people)· About a month ago he hired a four-man team of personal trainers.
Life is hard for us women. one of the most wanted men in China· the children’s wear section of the store
the ordinary working man· Hafpor is a big man, nearly two metres tall and weighing over 100 kilograms.· A big young man came out of the plane with a short, thin, grey-haired one - Harald and Carl.· He always wanted to show that he was as good as the big man.· So his wicked sister's vanished and now he's big man on campus.· Finally Ishmael starts shouting at Queequeg and nudging him and finally awakes the big man.· The big man appeared, suddenly.· I be big man past him.
· From under the dark, dried porch roof, we are watched with unease by two old black men.· The check the black man put into his own pocket.· I took a tramcar a second time; when it stopped I saw a long queue of mostly Black men.· I had never, ever, ever seen a black man kill a white man.· Fought low, can this ageing black man rise and escape the curse of his anger?· Ralph Ellison captured it perfectly for the black man with the metaphor of invisibility.· As they drank tea, with Evans out of the room, a black man burst in.· One smart thing these sisters did was lay down the burden of protecting the endangered black man.
· In addition, it is an unfortunate fact that some gay men are paedophiles, however few in comparison with heterosexual men.· It was advice that very large numbers of gay men, desperate for leadership, willingly followed.· Are lesbians and gay men born or made?· For many gay men such integration certainly took place.· A little voice deep within her asks if going there with five gay men is the best way to achieve this.· If gay men had been forming efficient cores, this would almost certainly not have been the case.
· Pacino demonstrates how well he can play a very old man.· This again portrays Cassius as a hero, and Caesar as a feeble old man in comparison.· No, the old men were the real radicals, the ones who corrupted us all.· Table 12.3 shows the inequalities in net income between older women and men.· Son, Isuppose you expect me to go put the old man in his place?· It had all happened one Sunday morning when an old man in London decided that that was how it would be.· The other day, I almost ran down an old man in a crosswalk.
· The qualities that make a poet are not different in kind from what other men have.· Another man was standing up behind a chair on which one of the other men was sitting.· To John Coffin's eye the other man still seemed nervous.· He made off, with the other man, in a silver metro type car with distinctive red stripes.· The other man had brown hair and a wispy moustache and wore faded denim jeans and a grey woollen jumper.· He had repeatedly demonstrated that he had a greater tolerance of G-forces than most other men.· Women seem to be currently more prone to seek longer-term close relationships with other women than men are with other men.· Two other men in white ran out behind him.
· She doesn't understand him, but I do - he's a rich young man with a beautiful body.· After all, men smoke cigars. Rich men.· The politics of deference - the rich man in his castle the poor man at his gate - held change in check.· Although he wielded enormous economic power, Park never became a rich man and was not personally corrupt.· Then, as now, a town council was so dazzled they rubber-stamped all this terribly rich man asked of them.· Third is the distinction or esteem that accrues to the rich man as the result of his wealth.
· That means our discussion programmes, for example, should not simply consist of white able-bodied men.· The colored in any number makes the white man nervous.· They all represent the obsessional, neurotic and fetishistic sexuality of a gay scene, created by and for white men.· They became involved in an altercation with two white men, Ronald Ebens and Michael Nitz, at a topless club.· In the experience of friends who canvass for the Labour party, old, white, middle-class men are the rudest.· After refreshing himself at the bar, Isaac came back for him, prescient to the altered expectations of official white men.· You ask me to cut grass and make hay and sell it and be rich like white men.· Gasa is a black woman; her attacker reportedly is a white man.
· A younger man leaned against the wall and fingered a guitar.· The young man could watch Theresa walk past a window.· Kirov had opened himself up so that the younger man would trust him enough to confide his deepest thoughts.· They were all babies, and he was a young man again.· Three young men had got out and were looking at them.· He shook his head to drive away some bottleneck flies straying from the vile puddle in front of the horse-faced young man.· Sir Henry was a young and healthy man.· A young man who overestimated his ability got himself badly hurt.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY► somebody’s your man► you da man!► live as man and wife► to a man/to the last man► man-about-town► man of God/man of the cloth► every man jack► kick/hit a man when he’s down► man’s best friend► man!PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► England expects that every man will do his duty► a fine figure of a man/woman► a man/woman etc after my own heart► woman/man etc of independent means► one man’s meat is another man’s poison► the man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo► be/feel like a new man/woman► man/woman of many parts► the poor man’s somebody► separate the men from the boys► that’s life/men/politics etc (for you)► the thinking man’s/woman’s etc something► low man on the totem pole
- Come on, the man weighs over three hundred pounds!
- I can't stand the man.
- He sees the younger man's gun trained on him. The man wears rubber gloves.
- It was a terrible place, he said. The men were dying like flies, of fever.
- Primo and his friends all signed the petition. The man behind the table gave a speech.
- The man is funny. The man works hard.
- The black hot suffocated. The men worked steadily on, taking long breaks at the height of the day.
- We... arranged the violets in our caps. The men in the rank laughed at our proceedings..
- After an hour our man was still bludgeoning away.
- As our men did not wish to write-off two company cars, the youth escaped.
- In our scheme, we do not ask for the initiative of our men.
- One of our men spotted a freshly dug fighting position.
- She asked if there were no more warriors among our men.
- The fire was the most terrible enemy our men met that day.
- We hide behind our men, peeping at each other in a curious and suspicious fashion.
- He slaughtered our men in forty minutes.
- Soon, reports our man in the black wellies, all he had left were four golden orfe and a koi.
- Still there was no demoralization of our men in line.
- An underground company that isn't dominated by the grey men in suits.
- And so did the other half-dozen men in suits standing around, fingering the silky negligees.
- Armies of worried men in suits stormed off the Lexington Avenue subway line and marched down the crooked pavements.
- For the rest, we saw only tyrants, technology and men in suits.
- Looking out, she saw men in suits getting into the medium-sized cars.
- Nor was she forced out by the men in grey suits - though intrigue played a major role.
- Then, at lunchtime, Mrs Thatcher met a group of the so-called men in grey suits.
- When he asked for Hugh Sixsmith at the desk, two men in suits climbed quickly from their chairs.
- He was a man of his word, and I had great respect for his intellect.
- But Dan is a man of his word.
- Crazy Horse was a man of his word and was furious at the duplicity of the white man...
- He was, as much as was possible in a world where the buck was almighty, a man of his word.
- He was a man of few words except when he mounted the stage to recite his poetry.
- Bill Templeman was a man of few words.
- Blitherdick, usually a man of few words, had become lachrymose about Blenkinsop's enjoyment of a good wine.
- He had a clear scientific mind but was self-effacing, modest, and a man of few words.
- He was a man of few words but many graphic gestures.
- He was a man of few words in any case, Maggie noted.
- I am therefore a man of few words and I have been very brief throughout my professional career.
- Do you want to be your own man and run your own business?
- At the same time, both here and in Hawksmoor, Ackroyd, too, is his own man.
- But Erlich was his own man.
- He turned out to be his own man, and a leader.
- He was his own man, after all.
- Major's first chance to show that he is his own man has been squandered on favours.
- Mobile I was my own man and played the way I believed because we lacked talent in certain areas.
- The latest reshuffle, immediately following victory, was supposed to confirm, once and for all, that Major was his own man.
- You can be your own man.
- Back in 1831 the man of the moment was one Squire George Osbaldeston.
- Except for one player, the man of the moment in the Kingdome.
- Miltiades was the man of the hour, and his advice was to strike at once and win back the Cyclades.
- Sean Bean's the man of the moment.
- That's what makes Bush the man of the hour, for these are indisputably good times.
- You ought to be the man of the hour.
- In journalism it's every man for himself.
- But the man in the street will say: how can it get worse?
- For the man in the street, sueing for libel can be an expensive business.
- One of the men in the street ran to open the door, then another man pushed him.
- That's what the man in the street wants.
- The Alliance Party had a slightly Roman Catholic image with the man in the street.
- The noise of thunder rolls across the city, pressing down and leaving the man in the street angered and on edge.
- Then comes the whip, the sudden vicious reminder of the man in the street.
- Springsteen is still a man of the people.
- Supporters viewed him as a man of the people.
- He truly is a man of the people.
- Joey, a legend among motor-cycling fans in Ulster, has always been a man of the people.
- Just a man of the people, trying to make a dollar.
- The Conservatives want to demonstrate that the Prime Minister is a man of the people.
- He was a Vietnam veteran, a man's man who liked to hunt and ride his motorcycle.
- He looks offended when I tell him he is perceived as a man's man.
- He is a ladies' man, causing Rosita to fall in love with him and even suggesting marriage with him.
- Old Henry Claar-my grandfather-in-law-was a ladies' man.
- There was no amorous intent about it, because Matt had assured her that Silas was not a ladies' man.
- Dozens of men and boys take turns trading shots with him.
- In the first scene he showed how men and boys prepared for combat and self-defence.
- It seemed incredible; what would the Axis want with a bunch of small-town men and boys led by a band conductor?
- On 25 May, 1812, the Felling pit in Durham exploded, killing 92 men and boys.
- That was fine when manpower was cheap and farming was labour intensive, when families worked in the fields man and boy.
- The men and boys were lined up and marched off in one direction, and women and children in another.
- The twenty-six men and boys were martyred.
- These barbarians are young men and boys, in their teens and early twenties.
- Mom burst into tears as the minister pronounced us man and wife.
- Terry and Meena aren't married but they live together as man and wife.
- As man and wife, we will be one flesh.
- Binyomin and Tsila had not only kissed but were on the verge of becoming man and wife in earnest.
- Both are considered totally private affairs, the secret of which is often not even shared between man and wife.
- But they were as man and wife.
- It was thought preferable for the schoolmaster and schoolmistress to be man and wife.
- One such dispute was settled by Marie with a verdict apparently asserting that true love can not exist between man and wife.
- The man and wife arrested with him have been bailed but probably face further questioning about suspected harbouring of an escaped prisoner.
- The victims were man and wife.
- The crowd rise to their feet as one man.
- The... whole North arose as one man...
- Undaunted, Athletico played as one man.
- As for fitzAlan ... did you think killing three of my men would go unnoticed?
- But my man fires his gun.
- But was it necessary to kill my men in cold blood?
- Hey Timmy, how are you, my man?
- I called my men to drive them back.
- I decided like a good captain to remain with my men.
- I heard my men going after him with their guns - and then everything went black.
- Bob Dole may be indelibly marked as the man from Kansas but his roots are in Ohio.
- But the man from her school never showed up.
- He straightened and looked across to where the men from the ambulance were advancing with his father and his wife.
- I can't remember if the picture of the man from the magazine looked anything like Boy.
- So the man from Tennessee said.
- The night before, the man from the Lions rang.
- Was it to be the man from behind the yellow door?
- When the two children got back to the tunnel with the men from the farm, they found Bobbie and Jim asleep.
- But my man fires his gun.
- But was it necessary to kill my men in cold blood?
- Hey Timmy, how are you, my man?
- Hum-m-m, I just lo-o-ve my men in uniform.
- I decided like a good captain to remain with my men.
- I heard my men going after him with their guns - and then everything went black.
- Six of my men were killed in one spot near me.
- You can kill ten of my men for every one I kill of yours.
- Boss your men and shame your women; that was a rule of thumb with him.
- Ged Taggart scored for Barnsley Taylor told: Wright is your man!
- I've read the files on your men.
- In that way you got paid whether your man was elected or not.
- It sounds like your man Dario was up there too, cool-wise, I mean.
- Perhaps your men have uncovered something.
- Reinforce this so your man won't feel pressure to become aroused.
- Then I am your man, Watson.
- But even when the man of the house was around, she was head of the household and determined all our fortunes.
- And a T'ang is not just any man.
- Marley said he was sorry for his crimes and insists he's a changed man.
- My father came back from the war a changed man.
- She returned from her travel a changed woman.
- But when he came home he was a changed man.
- He's a changed man since Mum went into hospital.
- He emerged from the opera house a changed man.
- He lives only for the moment, and he is already a changed man.
- Ian says from then on Robert has been a changed man - withdrawn and completely unapproachable.
- Meanwhile, the master strategist, off in Los Angeles, was sixty-nine years old and a changed man.
- For a man of the cloth to spend so much of his time there suggested all manner of things.
- He was in every sense a man of the cloth.
- Smith and fellow men of the cloth conducted nocturnal sorties, gathering ammunition against the wicked.
- Surely a man of the cloth wouldn't look at her with the same sort of craving as James Halden.
- Their seduction had long been used on men of the cloth, often with rewarding results for the cook.
- It is this that prompts a deep feeling of compassion for the sub-human world and for all our fellow men.
- That is, better an unattainable ideal than a limited attainable goal when it comes to the welfare of our fellow men.
- Vellios was a fine figure of a man.
- And he was a fine man, a good man.
- Aye, a fine man, Elizabeth thought admiringly.
- Ben's a fine man, but he does talk so much.
- He was a fine man, Con Meredith-Lee.
- I travelled in and they did an interview which a fine man called Peter Canham heard on his car radio.
- Really sad case, that, because he'd been a fine man.
- She was a fine woman, unspoilt by childbirth, her body hardened by fieldwork.
- You're a fine woman when you're roused, my darling.
- Grown men in three-piece suits were playing video games.
- Elsie had never seen a grown man cry before.
- He' s a grown man - he should be able to cook for himself!
- She's crazy -- a grown woman letting a girl order her around like that.
- And the old Porsche 911 which has the same effect, but for very different reasons, on grown men.
- I was fourteen, but I guess I looked like a grown woman.
- In this story about Shep, he is a grown man and the prosperous owner of a silk mill.
- Nearly twenty years ago that was, and now you re a grown woman.
- No wonder that many grown women rebel against them.
- Not one grown man, aristocrat or peasant, is worthy of respect when you really know him.
- Several that I saw were very old, bearded, emaciated and grim and deathlike, instead of babies, grown men.
- She was a grown woman, she was entitled to take a bit of comfort as and when she pleased.
- But being in a wheelchair doesn't stop them having fun - or falling for the leading man.
- Corbin Timbrook, a handsome leading man-type, has been tending Downtown's best bar for three years now.
- Davis became a genius by turning bit actors into leading men.
- Oh, some one always asks who my favorite leading lady was or who was the best kisser.
- Questioner2 Is your decision to take a year off anything to do with the rumours about Jeff and his present leading lady?
- The initial structure of the show had kind of a leading man figure: John Kelly.
- They came at full speed, the leading man aiming to Sharpe's left, the other pulling to his right.
- Tuesday night's opening had to be cancelled and on Wednesday night the leading lady was ill.
- He was a tough little kid, Esteban, the women in his life say.
- Michael: Who are the men in your life?
- My doctor is the man in my life.
- Nevertheless, he felt abandoned and betrayed by the women in his life.
- Recent books have revealed the unacknowledged literary debts that writers such as Brecht and Joyce owed to the women in their lives.
- To clarify things that may be confusing the men in their lives.
- Was that why she found the men in her life all so boring?
- Why was it that the men in her life seemed to have found some other woman to give them an heir?
- But Chennault was a marked man.
- Ever since his luncheon with Katherine Fisher, Jim had felt like a marked man whenever he was in the office complex.
- From that time he was dedicated, a marked man.
- He thus became a marked man.
- In his defence, Souness believes his no-nonsense approach has made him a marked man.
- It was well known that the younger Beaumont twin was a marked man.
- Mark Gallagher - marked man today Much ado about nothing!
- Without Young, forward Andy Poppink is a marked man.
- More like troubled at mill Salford says there's more to its patron saint than pictures of matchstick men.
- Come on, Ragtime Cowboy Joe, take your medicine.
- Conradin hated her with all his heart, but he obeyed her quietly and took his medicine without arguing.
- He and his grandpa took their medicine together, at the same time.
- He hadn't been changed or taken his medicine.
- He shut his eyes, held his nose like a kid about to take his medicine, and started to drink.
- His major problem is that he misses taking his medicine, and he travels too much.
- Like some one recovering from the flu, she quit taking her medicine as soon as she felt better.
- Soon after she left the hospital, with a clearer mind, she again stopped taking her medicine.
- A man with a mission who suddenly loses his faith.
- How can a 77-year-old man with a mission admit that he was wrong all along?
- Powered by a man with a mission.
- After a while, everybody will have the technology to make a movie look as cool as the next person.
- All you need to know about Flaubert to know as much as the next person!
- Now Glover himself was as female as the next man, keeping an eagle eye on boys.
- She figured the guys could see for themselves then that he could be as vulnerable as the next man.
- I was always the odd man out in my class at school.
- And Joe Bowie remains the odd man out, uncoupled at the end.
- At each stage of the story, Britain has been the odd man out.
- He was the odd one out in a gifted family.
- Others are widowed or divorced, and hate being the odd one out among friends who are all couples.
- Unless Spencer is traded, the latter seems to be the odd man out despite showing improvement in the preseason.
- Which of the following grape varieties is the odd one out? 4.
- Why is it always the odd man out?
- She didn't want to quarrel with him, but made it plain that she was her own woman now, with her own life to lead.
- Sheila is very much her own woman. She'll listen to everyone and then make up her mind for herself.
- Stan was intellectual, confident and above all, his own man.
- At the same time, both here and in Hawksmoor, Ackroyd, too, is his own man.
- But Erlich was his own man.
- He turned out to be his own man, and a leader.
- He was his own man, after all.
- Major's first chance to show that he is his own man has been squandered on favours.
- Mobile I was my own man and played the way I believed because we lacked talent in certain areas.
- The latest reshuffle, immediately following victory, was supposed to confirm, once and for all, that Major was his own man.
- You can be your own man.
- No one could have been more sympathetic to the detail of the poor man's need, or more capable of vicarious imagination.
- A mature spinster, a professional woman, might.
- About 80 percent of its clients are business and professional women.
- As far as childcare is concerned, professional women have to rely on paid care.
- Glossy, high-powered soap opera about four black professional women helping one another through a bad year in Phoenix.
- Of those executive and professional women who did marry, most chose not to have children or deferred them until very late.
- The result is that the practical definition of obscenity has been decided by middle-aged-to-elderly professional men.
- There may be a willing volunteer or a professional person specially appointed, but this may not be easy to find.
- These are very well-educated professional women in Fog Bank who felt insecure about investing.
- And, like Sir Geoffrey and Mr Heseltine, he routinely sets up federalism as a straw man to knock down.
- The creationist position in the Origin is never merely a straw man to be knocked down.
- The half-hour show uses these to the fullest, setting up straw man after straw man for Daria to demolish.
- Whether Lorenz's critics were firing a straw man is unimportant.
- The advertising industry has to know exactly what the man in the street is thinking.
- This latest legislation will not really affect the man or woman in the street.
- But the man in the street will say: how can it get worse?
- He picked up the women in the street.
- Like most of the women in the street, Pat Johnstone had been angered by it all.
- One of the men in the street ran to open the door, then another man pushed him.
- That's what the man in the street wants.
- The Alliance Party had a slightly Roman Catholic image with the man in the street.
- Then comes the whip, the sudden vicious reminder of the man in the street.
- Aristeides represented the land forces, the men of substance, who provided their own armour and were not paid.
- But Miss Close's father was a man of substance, and he finally bought the picture for a rather large sum.
- He accepted the semi-political duties of a man of substance in his county.
- He was a man of substance.
- His will, executed on 12 December 1760, shows him to have been a man of substance.
- I am not worried about the men of substance.
- I was a man of substance now, I had arrived.
- The lowest officials on the administrative tier were the village headmen, who were normally men of substance.
- I finally realized I could not be all things to all people.
- Andrea felt tremendous pressure to succeed, to continue to be all things to all people.
- Anyway, these compendiums try to be all things to all people.
- For years, the stores had managed to be all things to all people.
- In this sense many of the international firms will try to be all things to all people.
- It is all things to all men ... and this is perhaps its number one axiom.
- No-one is all things to all people, and Anthea is no exception.
- Politicians have to be all things to all people.
- The single truck was all things to all men and women.
- Bill Templeman was a man of few words.
- Blitherdick, usually a man of few words, had become lachrymose about Blenkinsop's enjoyment of a good wine.
- He had a clear scientific mind but was self-effacing, modest, and a man of few words.
- He was a man of few words but many graphic gestures.
- He was a man of few words in any case, Maggie noted.
- I am therefore a man of few words and I have been very brief throughout my professional career.
- Look, Ray, you're a man of the world - I'm sure you've been in situations like this before.
- Now, you listen to me, young man!
- He certainly got his money's worth, that young man.
- He was a very beautiful young man, a bit like a girl, perhaps - but still very good-looking.
- If Southend police could run in some young man who picked up the car on the Foulness road yesterday afternoon.
- Their captors are equally enthralled with the two young men.
- This is a young man's play, and it feels like one.
- This social and hormonal dilemma of young men was illuminated by a series of experiments with Rhesus monkeys in Atlanta.
- Was the future of the Rabari incarnate in this young man?
WORD FAMILYnounmanmanhoodmankindadjectivemanly ≠ unmanlymanned ≠ unmannedmannishverbmanadverbmanfully
1male person [countable] an adult male human: There were two men and a woman in the car. He’s a very kind man. a man’s watch Don’t keep Hansen waiting – he’s a busy man.2strong/brave [countable usually singular] a man who has the qualities that people think a man should have, such as being brave, strong etc: Come on, be a man now. No more crying. He wasn’t man enough (=strong or brave enough) to face up to his responsibilities.make a man (out) of somebody (=make a boy or young man start behaving in a confident way) Running his own business has really made a man out of Terry.3person [countable] a person, either male or female – used especially in formal situations or in the past: All men are equal in the eyes of the law. a man’s right to work4people [uncountable] people as a group: This is one of the worst diseases known to man. the evolution of manprehistoric/Stone Age/modern man (=people who lived at a particular stage of human development)5worker a)[countable usually plural] a man who works for an employer: Why were there no protests from the men at the factory? b)[countable] a man who does a job for you, especially repairing something: Has the man been to fix the TV?gas man/rent man etc I waited all day for the gas man. c)the man from something a man who works for a particular company or organization: Was that the man from the PR agency?6particular kind of man [countable] a)a man who comes from a particular place, does a particular kind of work, or is connected with a particular organization, especially a university or company: I think she married a Belfast man. I’ve been a military man all my life. Even a Harvard man has a lot to learn about politics. b)a man who likes, or likes doing, a particular thing: I’m more of a jazz man myself. Are you a betting man?7man! spoken a)used when speaking to an adult male, especially when you are excited, angry etc: Stop talking nonsense, man! b)used when speaking to someone, especially an adult male: You look great, man!8soldier [countable usually plural] a soldier or sailor who is under the authority of an officer: The captain ordered his men to fire.9husband [countable] informal a woman’s husband or boyfriendsomebody’s man She spent five years waiting for her man to come out of prison.10the man spoken a)used to talk about a man you dislike, a man who has done something stupid etc: Don’t listen to him – the man’s a complete idiot. b)The Man American English old-fashioned someone who has authority over you, especially a police officer11somebody’s your man spoken used to say that a particular man is the best person for a job, situation etc: If you need repairs done in the house, Brian’s your man.12you da man! you’re the man! American English spoken used to praise someone for having done something well13our man spoken used by the police to refer to a man that they are watching or trying to find, especially because they think he is responsible for a crime: Gareth couldn’t possibly be our man. He couldn’t possibly be a murderer. Perhaps our man parked his car at the station and took the train.14our man in/at something a man who is the representative of a country or organization in a particular place: our man in Rome a report on the accident from our man at the scene15men in (grey) suits informal the men who control businesses, organizations etc, considered as a group, especially when you think they are boring16a man of his word a man you can trust, who will do what he has promised to do: He had promised to help, and Sally knew that Dr Neil was a man of his word.17a man of few words a man who does not talk very much: Being a man of few words, his message was short and to the point.18be your own man to behave and think independently without worrying about what other people think: I’m my own man. I say what I believe.19the man of the moment/hour/year a man who has recently done something important: Olson was the man of the hour when the team beat the Tigers.20it’s every man for himself spoken used to say that people will not help each other: In journalism it’s every man for himself.21the man in the street (also the man on the Clapham omnibus British English old-fashioned) the average man or the average person SYN Joe Bloggs/Schmo: This kind of music doesn’t appeal to the man in the street.22a man of the people a man who understands and expresses the views and opinions of ordinary people: The prime minister is a man of the people.23a man’s man a man who enjoys being with other men and doing sports and activities with them, and is popular with men rather than women: He enjoyed his reputation as a man’s man, but was careful never to neglect his family.24a ladies’ man a man who is popular with women and who likes to go out with a lot of different women: Paul likes to think he’s a bit of a ladies’ man.25man and boy British English if a man has done something man and boy, he has done it all his life: I’ve worked on that farm man and boy.26man and wife if a man and a woman are man and wife, they are married: I now pronounce you man and wife (=you are now officially married).27live as man and wife if a man and a woman live as man and wife, they live together as if they are married, although they are not28as one man written if a group of people do something as one man, they do it together: The audience rose as one man to applaud the singers.29 to a man/to the last man written used to say that all the men in a group do something or have a particular quality: They were socialists to a man.30man-about-town a rich man who goes out a lot to parties, clubs, theatres etc: In his designer suit and shiny shoes he looked quite the man about town.31man of God/man of the cloth a priest: You’d believe a man of the cloth, wouldn’t you?32my (good) man British English old-fashioned spoken used when talking to someone of a lower social class – do not use this phrase: My good man, I really don’t think you should be here.33my man spoken used by some men to greet a friend: Jason, my man! How’s it going?34your/yer man spoken used to talk about a particular man – used mainly in Ireland: I’ve got to go and see yer man this afternoon.35servant [countable] old-fashioned a male servant: My man will drive you to the station.36game [countable] one of the pieces you use in a game such as chess37every man jack old-fashioned each person in a group: Spies, every man jack of them, I’d bet.38kick/hit a man when he’s down to treat someone badly when you know that they already have problems: Most of his rivals couldn’t resist kicking a man when he was down.39man’s best friend a dog40the man of the house the most important male member of a family, who is responsible for doing things such as paying bills, making important decisions etc: Since my father’s death, my eldest brother has been the man of the house. → best man, man-to-man, New Man, old man, → be a man/woman of the world at world1(21)THESAURUSman an adult male human: · a young man· Sir Edmund Hillary was the first man to climb Mount Everest.guy (also bloke/chap British English) informal a man: · She’d arranged to meet a guy in the bar.· Alex is a really nice bloke.gentleman formal a man – used as a very polite way of talking about a man: · an elderly gentleman· Please could you serve this gentleman?boy a young male person, usually a child or a teenager: · a teenage boylad old-fashioned informal a boy or young man: · When I was a young lad, I wanted to join the army.youth a teenage boy or young man – used especially in news reports to show disapproval: · Gangs of youths roam the streets.male formal a man – used especially by the police or in science and research contexts. The adjective male is much more common than the noun: · We are investigating the death of an unidentified male.· The condition is usually found only in males.dude American English informal a man – a very informal use: · You could tell there was something creepy going on with that dude.relating to menmale adjective a male teacher, singer etc is a man. Male jobs are the kind of jobs that men typically do: · Most science teachers are male.· a male nurse· We are trying to recruit more women to do traditionally male jobs such as engineering.masculine considered to be more typical of a man than of a woman: · He had a very masculine face.· masculine aggressionmanly having the qualities that people expect and admire in a man, such as being brave and strong: · He took off his shirt, revealing his manly chest.· It isn’t considered manly to cry.· In the portrait, the King looked manly and in control.· He was bronzed and athletic, with manly features and a steady gaze.macho behaving in a way that is traditionally typical of men, for example by being strong and tough and not showing your feelings – used especially either humorously or to show disapproval: · On the outside he may seem to be very macho but inside he’s very sensitive.· Stallone always plays macho men.· He’s far too macho to drink mineral water.man1 nounman2 verbman3 interjection
manman2 ●○○ verb (past tense and past participle manned, present participle manning) [transitive] VERB TABLE
man
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | man |
| he, she, it | mans | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | manned |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have manned |
| he, she, it | has manned | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had manned |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will man |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have manned |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am manning |
| he, she, it | is manning | |
| you, we, they | are manning | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was manning |
| you, we, they | were manning | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been manning |
| he, she, it | has been manning | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been manning |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be manning |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been manning |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- The booths are manned by customs officials.
- In the early morning of May 18, police manning barricades were replaced by army paratroopers who opened fire with machine guns.
- It's no wonder the counter isn't manned half the time.
- On the Bulevard Republicii there are a number of road- blocks, formerly manned by militias and now by troops.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES The Minister was kidnapped by armed men on his way to the airport. The 20th century was called the century of the common man (=ordinary people). officers and enlisted men Nylon is a man-made fibre. He walked out of the courtroom a free man. Wynford was an architect of genius. Jones was known as soccer’s hard man. a bald-headed man (=having no hair) in a shiny suit He’s sick of being cast as the hard macho man in films. Who was the mystery woman spotted on board the yacht with the prince? He does a one-man show in Las Vegas. The car park is for staff only. The party try to portray the prime minister as a man of the people (=someone in power who understands or is like ordinary people). He’s a remarkable man. The removal men have been in and out all day. Life is hard for us women. one of the most wanted men in China the ordinary working manCOLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN
The Minister was kidnapped by armed men on his way to the airport. (=the people who take your rubbish away)· Which day do the bin men come?
The 20th century was called the century of the common man (=ordinary people). (=man who delivers goods to people)· He got a job as a delivery man for a hardware store.
· He died a hero on the battlefield.
(=the perfect one for you)· We can help you find the house of your dreams.
officers and enlisted men· Men’s fashions have not changed much in 50 years.
Nylon is a man-made fibre. He walked out of the courtroom a free man. Wynford was an architect of genius. (=a piece of gingerbread in the shape of a man)
Jones was known as soccer’s hard man. a bald-headed man (=having no hair) in a shiny suit· I know Tom to be a man of honour and integrity.
· Your son’s a lucky man, having a father like you.
He’s sick of being cast as the hard macho man in films. (=someone who looks after buildings and equipment for a school or organization)
· By 1957 a third of married women were working.
(=the best player in a match)· Henri was named man of the match.
(=people today)· Modern man gets much less exercise in his daily life than his ancestors.
Who was the mystery woman spotted on board the yacht with the prince? (=someone with a particular name) some guy named Bob Dylan
some guy named Bob Dylan He does a one-man show in Las Vegas. The car park is for staff only. The party try to portray the prime minister as a man of the people (=someone in power who understands or is like ordinary people). literary (=with a lot of energy or violence)
(=someone with strong moral ideas)· He is the only candidate who has demonstrated that he is a man of principle.
He’s a remarkable man. The removal men have been in and out all day. (=one with three, four etc people)· About a month ago he hired a four-man team of personal trainers.
Life is hard for us women. one of the most wanted men in China· the children’s wear section of the store
the ordinary working man· In the early morning of May 18, police manning barricades were replaced by army paratroopers who opened fire with machine guns.· But no one is likely to man the barricades on our ancient behalf.· They manned the barricades - did a good job, but survival was down to luck at times.· For some of those manning the barricades in Quebec, this is irrelevant.
· The Nova will have unmanned launches next year followed by a manned mission, which Bennett himself wants to pilot.· For manned lunar-landing missions, an even larger booster was required.· In all there were eleven manned Apollo missions, of which nine flew to the Moon.· Further, no nation on Earth presently has the ability to launch manned lunar missions.· At that stage the engines were being developed with a manned Mrs mission in mind.· By this stage, the groundwork necessary for manned missions has been accomplished.· It is now far more acceptable to start talking about a manned mission to Mars.· Manned visits to the Martian moons Phobos and Deimos often figure as parts of manned missions to the surface of Mars.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► England expects that every man will do his duty► a fine figure of a man/woman► a man/woman etc after my own heart► woman/man etc of independent means► one man’s meat is another man’s poison► the man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo► be/feel like a new man/woman► man/woman of many parts► the poor man’s somebody► separate the men from the boys► that’s life/men/politics etc (for you)► the thinking man’s/woman’s etc something► low man on the totem pole
- And a T'ang is not just any man.
- Marley said he was sorry for his crimes and insists he's a changed man.
- My father came back from the war a changed man.
- She returned from her travel a changed woman.
- But when he came home he was a changed man.
- He's a changed man since Mum went into hospital.
- He emerged from the opera house a changed man.
- He lives only for the moment, and he is already a changed man.
- Ian says from then on Robert has been a changed man - withdrawn and completely unapproachable.
- Meanwhile, the master strategist, off in Los Angeles, was sixty-nine years old and a changed man.
- For a man of the cloth to spend so much of his time there suggested all manner of things.
- He was in every sense a man of the cloth.
- Smith and fellow men of the cloth conducted nocturnal sorties, gathering ammunition against the wicked.
- Surely a man of the cloth wouldn't look at her with the same sort of craving as James Halden.
- Their seduction had long been used on men of the cloth, often with rewarding results for the cook.
- It is this that prompts a deep feeling of compassion for the sub-human world and for all our fellow men.
- That is, better an unattainable ideal than a limited attainable goal when it comes to the welfare of our fellow men.
- Vellios was a fine figure of a man.
- And he was a fine man, a good man.
- Aye, a fine man, Elizabeth thought admiringly.
- Ben's a fine man, but he does talk so much.
- He was a fine man, Con Meredith-Lee.
- I travelled in and they did an interview which a fine man called Peter Canham heard on his car radio.
- Really sad case, that, because he'd been a fine man.
- She was a fine woman, unspoilt by childbirth, her body hardened by fieldwork.
- You're a fine woman when you're roused, my darling.
- Grown men in three-piece suits were playing video games.
- Elsie had never seen a grown man cry before.
- He' s a grown man - he should be able to cook for himself!
- She's crazy -- a grown woman letting a girl order her around like that.
- And the old Porsche 911 which has the same effect, but for very different reasons, on grown men.
- I was fourteen, but I guess I looked like a grown woman.
- In this story about Shep, he is a grown man and the prosperous owner of a silk mill.
- Nearly twenty years ago that was, and now you re a grown woman.
- No wonder that many grown women rebel against them.
- Not one grown man, aristocrat or peasant, is worthy of respect when you really know him.
- Several that I saw were very old, bearded, emaciated and grim and deathlike, instead of babies, grown men.
- She was a grown woman, she was entitled to take a bit of comfort as and when she pleased.
- But being in a wheelchair doesn't stop them having fun - or falling for the leading man.
- Corbin Timbrook, a handsome leading man-type, has been tending Downtown's best bar for three years now.
- Davis became a genius by turning bit actors into leading men.
- Oh, some one always asks who my favorite leading lady was or who was the best kisser.
- Questioner2 Is your decision to take a year off anything to do with the rumours about Jeff and his present leading lady?
- The initial structure of the show had kind of a leading man figure: John Kelly.
- They came at full speed, the leading man aiming to Sharpe's left, the other pulling to his right.
- Tuesday night's opening had to be cancelled and on Wednesday night the leading lady was ill.
- He was a tough little kid, Esteban, the women in his life say.
- Michael: Who are the men in your life?
- My doctor is the man in my life.
- Nevertheless, he felt abandoned and betrayed by the women in his life.
- Recent books have revealed the unacknowledged literary debts that writers such as Brecht and Joyce owed to the women in their lives.
- To clarify things that may be confusing the men in their lives.
- Was that why she found the men in her life all so boring?
- Why was it that the men in her life seemed to have found some other woman to give them an heir?
- But Chennault was a marked man.
- Ever since his luncheon with Katherine Fisher, Jim had felt like a marked man whenever he was in the office complex.
- From that time he was dedicated, a marked man.
- He thus became a marked man.
- In his defence, Souness believes his no-nonsense approach has made him a marked man.
- It was well known that the younger Beaumont twin was a marked man.
- Mark Gallagher - marked man today Much ado about nothing!
- Without Young, forward Andy Poppink is a marked man.
- More like troubled at mill Salford says there's more to its patron saint than pictures of matchstick men.
- Come on, Ragtime Cowboy Joe, take your medicine.
- Conradin hated her with all his heart, but he obeyed her quietly and took his medicine without arguing.
- He and his grandpa took their medicine together, at the same time.
- He hadn't been changed or taken his medicine.
- He shut his eyes, held his nose like a kid about to take his medicine, and started to drink.
- His major problem is that he misses taking his medicine, and he travels too much.
- Like some one recovering from the flu, she quit taking her medicine as soon as she felt better.
- Soon after she left the hospital, with a clearer mind, she again stopped taking her medicine.
- A man with a mission who suddenly loses his faith.
- How can a 77-year-old man with a mission admit that he was wrong all along?
- Powered by a man with a mission.
- After a while, everybody will have the technology to make a movie look as cool as the next person.
- All you need to know about Flaubert to know as much as the next person!
- Now Glover himself was as female as the next man, keeping an eagle eye on boys.
- She figured the guys could see for themselves then that he could be as vulnerable as the next man.
- I was always the odd man out in my class at school.
- And Joe Bowie remains the odd man out, uncoupled at the end.
- At each stage of the story, Britain has been the odd man out.
- He was the odd one out in a gifted family.
- Others are widowed or divorced, and hate being the odd one out among friends who are all couples.
- Unless Spencer is traded, the latter seems to be the odd man out despite showing improvement in the preseason.
- Which of the following grape varieties is the odd one out? 4.
- Why is it always the odd man out?
- She didn't want to quarrel with him, but made it plain that she was her own woman now, with her own life to lead.
- Sheila is very much her own woman. She'll listen to everyone and then make up her mind for herself.
- Stan was intellectual, confident and above all, his own man.
- At the same time, both here and in Hawksmoor, Ackroyd, too, is his own man.
- But Erlich was his own man.
- He turned out to be his own man, and a leader.
- He was his own man, after all.
- Major's first chance to show that he is his own man has been squandered on favours.
- Mobile I was my own man and played the way I believed because we lacked talent in certain areas.
- The latest reshuffle, immediately following victory, was supposed to confirm, once and for all, that Major was his own man.
- You can be your own man.
- No one could have been more sympathetic to the detail of the poor man's need, or more capable of vicarious imagination.
- A mature spinster, a professional woman, might.
- About 80 percent of its clients are business and professional women.
- As far as childcare is concerned, professional women have to rely on paid care.
- Glossy, high-powered soap opera about four black professional women helping one another through a bad year in Phoenix.
- Of those executive and professional women who did marry, most chose not to have children or deferred them until very late.
- The result is that the practical definition of obscenity has been decided by middle-aged-to-elderly professional men.
- There may be a willing volunteer or a professional person specially appointed, but this may not be easy to find.
- These are very well-educated professional women in Fog Bank who felt insecure about investing.
- And, like Sir Geoffrey and Mr Heseltine, he routinely sets up federalism as a straw man to knock down.
- The creationist position in the Origin is never merely a straw man to be knocked down.
- The half-hour show uses these to the fullest, setting up straw man after straw man for Daria to demolish.
- Whether Lorenz's critics were firing a straw man is unimportant.
- The advertising industry has to know exactly what the man in the street is thinking.
- This latest legislation will not really affect the man or woman in the street.
- But the man in the street will say: how can it get worse?
- He picked up the women in the street.
- Like most of the women in the street, Pat Johnstone had been angered by it all.
- One of the men in the street ran to open the door, then another man pushed him.
- That's what the man in the street wants.
- The Alliance Party had a slightly Roman Catholic image with the man in the street.
- Then comes the whip, the sudden vicious reminder of the man in the street.
- Aristeides represented the land forces, the men of substance, who provided their own armour and were not paid.
- But Miss Close's father was a man of substance, and he finally bought the picture for a rather large sum.
- He accepted the semi-political duties of a man of substance in his county.
- He was a man of substance.
- His will, executed on 12 December 1760, shows him to have been a man of substance.
- I am not worried about the men of substance.
- I was a man of substance now, I had arrived.
- The lowest officials on the administrative tier were the village headmen, who were normally men of substance.
- I finally realized I could not be all things to all people.
- Andrea felt tremendous pressure to succeed, to continue to be all things to all people.
- Anyway, these compendiums try to be all things to all people.
- For years, the stores had managed to be all things to all people.
- In this sense many of the international firms will try to be all things to all people.
- It is all things to all men ... and this is perhaps its number one axiom.
- No-one is all things to all people, and Anthea is no exception.
- Politicians have to be all things to all people.
- The single truck was all things to all men and women.
- Bill Templeman was a man of few words.
- Blitherdick, usually a man of few words, had become lachrymose about Blenkinsop's enjoyment of a good wine.
- He had a clear scientific mind but was self-effacing, modest, and a man of few words.
- He was a man of few words but many graphic gestures.
- He was a man of few words in any case, Maggie noted.
- I am therefore a man of few words and I have been very brief throughout my professional career.
- Look, Ray, you're a man of the world - I'm sure you've been in situations like this before.
- Now, you listen to me, young man!
- He certainly got his money's worth, that young man.
- He was a very beautiful young man, a bit like a girl, perhaps - but still very good-looking.
- If Southend police could run in some young man who picked up the car on the Foulness road yesterday afternoon.
- Their captors are equally enthralled with the two young men.
- This is a young man's play, and it feels like one.
- This social and hormonal dilemma of young men was illuminated by a series of experiments with Rhesus monkeys in Atlanta.
- Was the future of the Rabari incarnate in this young man?
WORD FAMILYnounmanmanhoodmankindadjectivemanly ≠ unmanlymanned ≠ unmannedmannishverbmanadverbmanfully
to work at, use, or operate a system, piece of equipment etc: A team of volunteers are manning the phones. the first manned spacecraftman up phrasal verb informal if a man mans up, he makes an effort to behave bravely: You need to man up and tell her to leave!man1 nounman2 verbman3 interjection
manman3 interjection especially American English EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Man, your refrigerator makes a lot of noise.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY Oh, man! I can hear the bullets.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES The Minister was kidnapped by armed men on his way to the airport. The 20th century was called the century of the common man (=ordinary people). officers and enlisted men Nylon is a man-made fibre. He walked out of the courtroom a free man. Wynford was an architect of genius. Jones was known as soccer’s hard man. a bald-headed man (=having no hair) in a shiny suit He’s sick of being cast as the hard macho man in films. Who was the mystery woman spotted on board the yacht with the prince? He does a one-man show in Las Vegas. The car park is for staff only. The party try to portray the prime minister as a man of the people (=someone in power who understands or is like ordinary people). He’s a remarkable man. The removal men have been in and out all day. Life is hard for us women. one of the most wanted men in China the ordinary working man
Oh, man! I can hear the bullets. The Minister was kidnapped by armed men on his way to the airport. (=the people who take your rubbish away)· Which day do the bin men come?
The 20th century was called the century of the common man (=ordinary people). (=man who delivers goods to people)· He got a job as a delivery man for a hardware store.
· He died a hero on the battlefield.
(=the perfect one for you)· We can help you find the house of your dreams.
officers and enlisted men· Men’s fashions have not changed much in 50 years.
Nylon is a man-made fibre. He walked out of the courtroom a free man. Wynford was an architect of genius. (=a piece of gingerbread in the shape of a man)
Jones was known as soccer’s hard man. a bald-headed man (=having no hair) in a shiny suit· I know Tom to be a man of honour and integrity.
· Your son’s a lucky man, having a father like you.
He’s sick of being cast as the hard macho man in films. (=someone who looks after buildings and equipment for a school or organization)
· By 1957 a third of married women were working.
(=the best player in a match)· Henri was named man of the match.
(=people today)· Modern man gets much less exercise in his daily life than his ancestors.
Who was the mystery woman spotted on board the yacht with the prince? (=someone with a particular name) some guy named Bob Dylan
some guy named Bob Dylan He does a one-man show in Las Vegas. The car park is for staff only. The party try to portray the prime minister as a man of the people (=someone in power who understands or is like ordinary people). literary (=with a lot of energy or violence)
(=someone with strong moral ideas)· He is the only candidate who has demonstrated that he is a man of principle.
He’s a remarkable man. The removal men have been in and out all day. (=one with three, four etc people)· About a month ago he hired a four-man team of personal trainers.
Life is hard for us women. one of the most wanted men in China· the children’s wear section of the store
the ordinary working manPHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► England expects that every man will do his duty► a fine figure of a man/woman► a man/woman etc after my own heart► woman/man etc of independent means► one man’s meat is another man’s poison► the man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo► be/feel like a new man/woman► man/woman of many parts► the poor man’s somebody► separate the men from the boys► that’s life/men/politics etc (for you)► the thinking man’s/woman’s etc something► low man on the totem pole
used to emphasize what you are saying, especially when you are angry, surprised, disappointed etc: - And a T'ang is not just any man.
- Marley said he was sorry for his crimes and insists he's a changed man.
- My father came back from the war a changed man.
- She returned from her travel a changed woman.
- But when he came home he was a changed man.
- He's a changed man since Mum went into hospital.
- He emerged from the opera house a changed man.
- He lives only for the moment, and he is already a changed man.
- Ian says from then on Robert has been a changed man - withdrawn and completely unapproachable.
- Meanwhile, the master strategist, off in Los Angeles, was sixty-nine years old and a changed man.
- For a man of the cloth to spend so much of his time there suggested all manner of things.
- He was in every sense a man of the cloth.
- Smith and fellow men of the cloth conducted nocturnal sorties, gathering ammunition against the wicked.
- Surely a man of the cloth wouldn't look at her with the same sort of craving as James Halden.
- Their seduction had long been used on men of the cloth, often with rewarding results for the cook.
- It is this that prompts a deep feeling of compassion for the sub-human world and for all our fellow men.
- That is, better an unattainable ideal than a limited attainable goal when it comes to the welfare of our fellow men.
- Vellios was a fine figure of a man.
- And he was a fine man, a good man.
- Aye, a fine man, Elizabeth thought admiringly.
- Ben's a fine man, but he does talk so much.
- He was a fine man, Con Meredith-Lee.
- I travelled in and they did an interview which a fine man called Peter Canham heard on his car radio.
- Really sad case, that, because he'd been a fine man.
- She was a fine woman, unspoilt by childbirth, her body hardened by fieldwork.
- You're a fine woman when you're roused, my darling.
- Grown men in three-piece suits were playing video games.
- Elsie had never seen a grown man cry before.
- He' s a grown man - he should be able to cook for himself!
- She's crazy -- a grown woman letting a girl order her around like that.
- And the old Porsche 911 which has the same effect, but for very different reasons, on grown men.
- I was fourteen, but I guess I looked like a grown woman.
- In this story about Shep, he is a grown man and the prosperous owner of a silk mill.
- Nearly twenty years ago that was, and now you re a grown woman.
- No wonder that many grown women rebel against them.
- Not one grown man, aristocrat or peasant, is worthy of respect when you really know him.
- Several that I saw were very old, bearded, emaciated and grim and deathlike, instead of babies, grown men.
- She was a grown woman, she was entitled to take a bit of comfort as and when she pleased.
- But being in a wheelchair doesn't stop them having fun - or falling for the leading man.
- Corbin Timbrook, a handsome leading man-type, has been tending Downtown's best bar for three years now.
- Davis became a genius by turning bit actors into leading men.
- Oh, some one always asks who my favorite leading lady was or who was the best kisser.
- Questioner2 Is your decision to take a year off anything to do with the rumours about Jeff and his present leading lady?
- The initial structure of the show had kind of a leading man figure: John Kelly.
- They came at full speed, the leading man aiming to Sharpe's left, the other pulling to his right.
- Tuesday night's opening had to be cancelled and on Wednesday night the leading lady was ill.
- He was a tough little kid, Esteban, the women in his life say.
- Michael: Who are the men in your life?
- My doctor is the man in my life.
- Nevertheless, he felt abandoned and betrayed by the women in his life.
- Recent books have revealed the unacknowledged literary debts that writers such as Brecht and Joyce owed to the women in their lives.
- To clarify things that may be confusing the men in their lives.
- Was that why she found the men in her life all so boring?
- Why was it that the men in her life seemed to have found some other woman to give them an heir?
- But Chennault was a marked man.
- Ever since his luncheon with Katherine Fisher, Jim had felt like a marked man whenever he was in the office complex.
- From that time he was dedicated, a marked man.
- He thus became a marked man.
- In his defence, Souness believes his no-nonsense approach has made him a marked man.
- It was well known that the younger Beaumont twin was a marked man.
- Mark Gallagher - marked man today Much ado about nothing!
- Without Young, forward Andy Poppink is a marked man.
- More like troubled at mill Salford says there's more to its patron saint than pictures of matchstick men.
- Come on, Ragtime Cowboy Joe, take your medicine.
- Conradin hated her with all his heart, but he obeyed her quietly and took his medicine without arguing.
- He and his grandpa took their medicine together, at the same time.
- He hadn't been changed or taken his medicine.
- He shut his eyes, held his nose like a kid about to take his medicine, and started to drink.
- His major problem is that he misses taking his medicine, and he travels too much.
- Like some one recovering from the flu, she quit taking her medicine as soon as she felt better.
- Soon after she left the hospital, with a clearer mind, she again stopped taking her medicine.
- A man with a mission who suddenly loses his faith.
- How can a 77-year-old man with a mission admit that he was wrong all along?
- Powered by a man with a mission.
- After a while, everybody will have the technology to make a movie look as cool as the next person.
- All you need to know about Flaubert to know as much as the next person!
- Now Glover himself was as female as the next man, keeping an eagle eye on boys.
- She figured the guys could see for themselves then that he could be as vulnerable as the next man.
- I was always the odd man out in my class at school.
- And Joe Bowie remains the odd man out, uncoupled at the end.
- At each stage of the story, Britain has been the odd man out.
- He was the odd one out in a gifted family.
- Others are widowed or divorced, and hate being the odd one out among friends who are all couples.
- Unless Spencer is traded, the latter seems to be the odd man out despite showing improvement in the preseason.
- Which of the following grape varieties is the odd one out? 4.
- Why is it always the odd man out?
- She didn't want to quarrel with him, but made it plain that she was her own woman now, with her own life to lead.
- Sheila is very much her own woman. She'll listen to everyone and then make up her mind for herself.
- Stan was intellectual, confident and above all, his own man.
- At the same time, both here and in Hawksmoor, Ackroyd, too, is his own man.
- But Erlich was his own man.
- He turned out to be his own man, and a leader.
- He was his own man, after all.
- Major's first chance to show that he is his own man has been squandered on favours.
- Mobile I was my own man and played the way I believed because we lacked talent in certain areas.
- The latest reshuffle, immediately following victory, was supposed to confirm, once and for all, that Major was his own man.
- You can be your own man.
- No one could have been more sympathetic to the detail of the poor man's need, or more capable of vicarious imagination.
- A mature spinster, a professional woman, might.
- About 80 percent of its clients are business and professional women.
- As far as childcare is concerned, professional women have to rely on paid care.
- Glossy, high-powered soap opera about four black professional women helping one another through a bad year in Phoenix.
- Of those executive and professional women who did marry, most chose not to have children or deferred them until very late.
- The result is that the practical definition of obscenity has been decided by middle-aged-to-elderly professional men.
- There may be a willing volunteer or a professional person specially appointed, but this may not be easy to find.
- These are very well-educated professional women in Fog Bank who felt insecure about investing.
- And, like Sir Geoffrey and Mr Heseltine, he routinely sets up federalism as a straw man to knock down.
- The creationist position in the Origin is never merely a straw man to be knocked down.
- The half-hour show uses these to the fullest, setting up straw man after straw man for Daria to demolish.
- Whether Lorenz's critics were firing a straw man is unimportant.
- The advertising industry has to know exactly what the man in the street is thinking.
- This latest legislation will not really affect the man or woman in the street.
- But the man in the street will say: how can it get worse?
- He picked up the women in the street.
- Like most of the women in the street, Pat Johnstone had been angered by it all.
- One of the men in the street ran to open the door, then another man pushed him.
- That's what the man in the street wants.
- The Alliance Party had a slightly Roman Catholic image with the man in the street.
- Then comes the whip, the sudden vicious reminder of the man in the street.
- Aristeides represented the land forces, the men of substance, who provided their own armour and were not paid.
- But Miss Close's father was a man of substance, and he finally bought the picture for a rather large sum.
- He accepted the semi-political duties of a man of substance in his county.
- He was a man of substance.
- His will, executed on 12 December 1760, shows him to have been a man of substance.
- I am not worried about the men of substance.
- I was a man of substance now, I had arrived.
- The lowest officials on the administrative tier were the village headmen, who were normally men of substance.
- I finally realized I could not be all things to all people.
- Andrea felt tremendous pressure to succeed, to continue to be all things to all people.
- Anyway, these compendiums try to be all things to all people.
- For years, the stores had managed to be all things to all people.
- In this sense many of the international firms will try to be all things to all people.
- It is all things to all men ... and this is perhaps its number one axiom.
- No-one is all things to all people, and Anthea is no exception.
- Politicians have to be all things to all people.
- The single truck was all things to all men and women.
- Bill Templeman was a man of few words.
- Blitherdick, usually a man of few words, had become lachrymose about Blenkinsop's enjoyment of a good wine.
- He had a clear scientific mind but was self-effacing, modest, and a man of few words.
- He was a man of few words but many graphic gestures.
- He was a man of few words in any case, Maggie noted.
- I am therefore a man of few words and I have been very brief throughout my professional career.
- Look, Ray, you're a man of the world - I'm sure you've been in situations like this before.
- Now, you listen to me, young man!
- He certainly got his money's worth, that young man.
- He was a very beautiful young man, a bit like a girl, perhaps - but still very good-looking.
- If Southend police could run in some young man who picked up the car on the Foulness road yesterday afternoon.
- Their captors are equally enthralled with the two young men.
- This is a young man's play, and it feels like one.
- This social and hormonal dilemma of young men was illuminated by a series of experiments with Rhesus monkeys in Atlanta.
- Was the future of the Rabari incarnate in this young man?
Man, that was a lucky escape! Oh, man! I can hear the bullets.