Claphamn.

/ˈklapəm/

Etymology: < the name of Clapham, a district of south-west London.

Clapham Sect: see sect n.¹ 4b. the man on the Clapham omnibus: the ordinary or average man; the ‘man in the street’.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > person > man > [noun] > ordinary or average man

Richard Roe1593

Tom Stiles1681

John Doe1756

the man in the street1831

the next man1848

Everyman1901

the man on the Clapham omnibus1903

slob1910

John Citizen1918

average Joe1940

Joe Blow1941

Joe Public1942

Joe Doakes1943

Joe Soap1943

Joe Bloggs1969

Joe Sixpack1972

everyguy1976

1857 Jrnl. Soc. Arts 1 May 348/1 So thoroughly has the tedious traffic of the streets become ground into the true Londoner's nature, that..your dog-collar'd occupant of the knife-board of a Clapham omnibus, will stick on London-bridge for half-an-hour with scarcely a murmur.]

1903 Law Rep.: King's Bench Div. 2 109 ‘Fair’, therefore, in this collocation certainly does not mean that which the ordinary reasonable man, ‘the man on the Clapham omnibus’, as Lord Bowen phrased it, the juryman common or special, would think a correct appreciation of the work.

1959 Listener 30 July 162/2 It is ‘the man in the street’, ‘the man in the jury box’, or (to use the phrase so familiar to English lawyers) ‘the man on the Clapham omnibus’.

1965 Listener 1 Apr. 474/1 The class character of our education will remain until..the scions of Lord Snow and the man on the Clapham omnibus attend the same comprehensive school.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online September 2020).

单词	clapham
释义	Claphamn. /ˈklapəm/ Etymology: < the name of Clapham, a district of south-west London. Clapham Sect: see sect n.¹ 4b. the man on the Clapham omnibus: the ordinary or average man; the ‘man in the street’. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > man > [noun] > ordinary or average man Richard Roe1593 Tom Stiles1681 John Doe1756 the man in the street1831 the next man1848 Everyman1901 the man on the Clapham omnibus1903 slob1910 John Citizen1918 average Joe1940 Joe Blow1941 Joe Public1942 Joe Doakes1943 Joe Soap1943 Joe Bloggs1969 Joe Sixpack1972 everyguy1976 1857 Jrnl. Soc. Arts 1 May 348/1 So thoroughly has the tedious traffic of the streets become ground into the true Londoner's nature, that..your dog-collar'd occupant of the knife-board of a Clapham omnibus, will stick on London-bridge for half-an-hour with scarcely a murmur.] 1903 Law Rep.: King's Bench Div. 2 109 ‘Fair’, therefore, in this collocation certainly does not mean that which the ordinary reasonable man, ‘the man on the Clapham omnibus’, as Lord Bowen phrased it, the juryman common or special, would think a correct appreciation of the work. 1959 Listener 30 July 162/2 It is ‘the man in the street’, ‘the man in the jury box’, or (to use the phrase so familiar to English lawyers) ‘the man on the Clapham omnibus’. 1965 Listener 1 Apr. 474/1 The class character of our education will remain until..the scions of Lord Snow and the man on the Clapham omnibus attend the same comprehensive school. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online September 2020). < n.1903
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