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man in the street

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man in the street
n. pl. men in the street
The ordinary citizen.
man in the street
n
the typical or ordinary person, esp as a hypothetical unit in statistics
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Noun1.man in the street - a hypothetical average man
Joe Bloggs, Joe Blow, John Doe
common man, common person, commoner - a person who holds no title


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He made a sign to Ali not to lose sight of the man in the street, and turned to the one in the dressing-room.
The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
To Henry and Thomson, the masters of electrical magic, this instrument was as surprising as it was to the man in the street.
The History of the Telephone by Casson, Herbert N. View in context
But the man in the street, finding no worth in himself which corresponds to the force which built a tower or sculptured a marble god, feels poor when he looks on these.
Essays, First Series by Emerson, Ralph Waldo View in context
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