common touch
noun
: the gift of appealing to or arousing the sympathetic interest of the common people
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web That alone forced the royals to recognize that Diana’s common touch had connected with people in ways that hadn’t yet occurred to the House of Windsor. 
Danica Kirka, Chicago Tribune, 30 Aug. 2022 Patterson’s common touch may have something to do with his onetime day job in advertising. Laura Miller, The New Yorker, 13 June 2022 The prime minister is affable and witty, a Falstaff with the common touch. Dominic Green, WSJ, 7 June 2022 Biden could combine the political talents of FDR and Reagan, the oratorical skills of Lincoln and JFK, and the common touch of Jackson and Truman, and this sense of falling behind would still be eating away at the foundations of his presidency. Rich Lowry, National Review, 29 Mar. 2022 His good nature and common touch helped make the place run. Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 20 Jan. 2022 Child may have had the common touch on camera, but her background was anything but ordinary. Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Nov. 2021 Despite being an Old Etonian, an Oxford alumnus, and a millionaire, Johnson has tried hard to cultivate a common touch. Lara Prendergast, Harper's Magazine, 26 Oct. 2021 But as Nasatir proved, and as Witherspoon is demonstrating all over again, having good taste and appreciating human-scale stories about the foibles, aspirations and triumphs of real people doesn’t mean losing the common touch. Washington Post, 6 Aug. 2021 See More
Danica Kirka, Chicago Tribune, 30 Aug. 2022 Patterson’s common touch may have something to do with his onetime day job in advertising. Laura Miller, The New Yorker, 13 June 2022 The prime minister is affable and witty, a Falstaff with the common touch. Dominic Green, WSJ, 7 June 2022 Biden could combine the political talents of FDR and Reagan, the oratorical skills of Lincoln and JFK, and the common touch of Jackson and Truman, and this sense of falling behind would still be eating away at the foundations of his presidency. Rich Lowry, National Review, 29 Mar. 2022 His good nature and common touch helped make the place run. Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 20 Jan. 2022 Child may have had the common touch on camera, but her background was anything but ordinary. Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Nov. 2021 Despite being an Old Etonian, an Oxford alumnus, and a millionaire, Johnson has tried hard to cultivate a common touch. Lara Prendergast, Harper's Magazine, 26 Oct. 2021 But as Nasatir proved, and as Witherspoon is demonstrating all over again, having good taste and appreciating human-scale stories about the foibles, aspirations and triumphs of real people doesn’t mean losing the common touch. Washington Post, 6 Aug. 2021 See More Word History
First Known Use
1910, in the meaning defined above