the masses

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The body of common people, or people of low socioeconomic status, as in TV sitcoms are designed to appeal to the masses. This idiom is nearly always used in a snobbish context that puts down the taste, intelligence, or some other quality of the majority of people. W.S. Gilbert satirized this view in the peers' march in Iolanthe (1882), in which the lower-middle class and the masses are ordered to bow down before the peers. Prime Minister William Gladstone took a different view (Speech, 1886): “All the world over, I will back the masses against the [upper] classes.” [First half of 1800s]

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释义	the masses SEE SYNONYMS FOR the masses ON THESAURUS.COM The body of common people, or people of low socioeconomic status, as in TV sitcoms are designed to appeal to the masses. This idiom is nearly always used in a snobbish context that puts down the taste, intelligence, or some other quality of the majority of people. W.S. Gilbert satirized this view in the peers' march in Iolanthe (1882), in which the lower-middle class and the masses are ordered to bow down before the peers. Prime Minister William Gladstone took a different view (Speech, 1886): “All the world over, I will back the masses against the [upper] classes.” [First half of 1800s] Words nearby the masses Magic Flute, The, Magic Mountain, The, Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg, The, Marriage of Figaro, The, “The Marseillaise”, the masses, The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation, Master Builder, The, thematic, Thematic Apperception Test, thematization The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Words related to the masses plebeian, populace, commoner, pleb, commonalty, public, common, commonality, hoi polloi, middle class, proletariat, rank and file, working class, third estate, infrastructure, masses, multitude, rabble, riffraff, great unwashed
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