| 单词 | the man in the parlour |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe man in the (also a) parlour (pub, bus, etc.) 23. the man in the street: see street n. and adj. Phrases 5; hence in extended use, as the man in the (also a) parlour (pub, bus, etc.). the man on the Clapham omnibus: see Clapham n. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > [noun] > one of the common people Jackc1390 fellowa1400 commonerc1400 populara1525 plebeianc1550 ungentle1562 Tom Tiler1582 roturier1586 vulgarity1646 little man1707 pleb1795 man of the people1799 the man in the street1831 snob1831 man1860 oickman1925 1860 R. W. Emerson Fate in Wks. (1906) II. 321 What pious men in the parlour will vote for what reprobates at the polls! a1930 D. H. Lawrence Phoenix (1936) 393 He has, au fond, the man-in-a-pub's moral mistrust of art. 1958 Listener 4 Dec. 920/2 Take, for instance, the terms in which the ordinary man-in-the-bus expresses his agreement with somebody else's opinion. 1990 R. Bly Iron John vii. 198 The contemporary man in the Kmart or the church basement or the lawyer's office has no Iron John from whom he can receive a four-legged horse. < as lemmas |
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