Meaning of man on the street | Babel Free

Definitions

An ordinary member of the general public, especially one who lacks special expertise.

idiomatic

Equivalents

Examples

“Near-synonyms: layman, everyman”

“Such was the airy way with which, not an illiterate man on the street, but a brilliant woman of the world disposed of a tremendous historical fact.”

“"When do the Olympics begin?" a reporter from a Nagano television station asks me in a man-on-the-street interview.”

“It is not only the man on the street who is characterized by taking one's own system of relevance for granted. This holds true for the expert,....”

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