man in the street

man in the street
the man in the street
Fig. the ordinary person. •

Politicians rarely care what the man in the street thinks.

The man in the street has little interest in literature.

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{n. phr.} The man who is just like most other men; the average man; the ordinary man. * /The newspaper took a poll of the man in the street./ Compare: JOE DOAKES, JOHN Q. PUBLIC.

Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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