man alone
noun NZ
A self-reliant, rugged male, particularly as a New Zealand stereotype: he was an outsider, a man alone, living just where adventure begins...
- It's a portrait of a man alone.
- With no car, little money, few possessions and the rural postal service as his means of communication, he was truly a man alone.
- He is very much a man alone in this saga.
Origin
1980s: from the novel Man Alone (1939) by John Mulgan.