the man/woman in the street
UK US the man/woman on the streetan ordinary, average person whose opinions are considered to represent most people:
To win the election he needs to appeal to the typical man in the street.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Ordinary people
- community
- Essex girl
- folk
- grassroots
- Jane Doe
- Joe Bloggs
- mass
- mass market
- Middle America
- mortal
- multitude
- omnibus
- on the ground idiom
- popular
- popularly
- street
- the common man idiom
- the general public
- the hoi polloi
- the man/woman on the Clapham omnibus idiom
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