单词	rank-and-file
释义	rank and fileˌrank and ˈfile noun Examples EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS Dalton seems to have been worried that the Party rank and file would be bewildered by the turn around. Indeed, most Tories sought to distance themselves from the actions of their own supporters amongst the rank and file. Now I could almost resent the rank and file, up there hogging every scene. Social control of the rank and file, in its formal disciplinary guise, had a multitude of possibilities. The rank and file were drawn from forced levies laid upon the tax-paying population. The enemy succeeded in capturing myself and 2, 200 rank and file, many of them being wounded. The other three Hardin dismissed almost immediately; they were rank and file on the face of them. While I have no special bond with the rank and file, I do sometimes have one with the officers. Thesaurus Longman Language Activatorordinary people► ordinary ordinary people are people who are not rich, famous, or powerful: ordinary people/folk: · Politicians don't care about ordinary people.· In the eighteenth century ordinary people had no access whatsoever to education.ordinary guy/man/woman etc: · In the film "Phenomenon", John Travolta plays an ordinary guy who becomes a genius overnight. ► average an average person is a typical example of a person: · The average family spends about £50 a week on food.· Foreign affairs do not usually interest the average voter.· There is concern that twenty years from now, the average American won't be able to afford to send his or her children to college. ► the man/woman in the street a typical person who has ordinary opinions, likes the same things as most other people etc -- used especially by journalists: · The advertising industry has to know exactly what the man in the street is thinking.· This latest legislation will not really affect the man or woman in the street. ► the general public all the ordinary people in a society or country, especially those without special knowledge of a subject: · Very little official information is given to the general public.· She is a poet who is admired by other poets but not well-known to the general public.· Organizers of the President's funeral plan a large ceremony for the general public, and a small, private affair for his family. ► the rank and file the ordinary members of an organization, especially a political organization, when compared with its leaders: · The rank and file has lost confidence in the party leadership.· conflict between union leaders and the rank and file at an Alfa Romeo factory ► the grass roots the ordinary members at the bottom of a political or religious organization: · The decisions were taken by the party leadership without consulting the grass roots. Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY► rank-and-file members  the rank-and-file members of the trade union Phrases PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY► the rank and file conflict between union leaders and the rank and file at an Alfa Romeo factory rank-and-file members The rank and file has lost confidence in the party leadership. The policy will now have to be approved by the rank and file. the rank and file the ordinary members of an organization rather than the leaders:  The rank and file of the party had lost confidence in the leadership.—rank-and-file adjective [only before noun]:  the rank-and-file members of the trade union
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