cracker-barrel
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of cracker-barrel
1875–80, adj. use of cracker barrel, around which rural people supposedly converse in old-style country stores
Example Sentences
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No media coverage of a political campaign would be complete without the small-town diner story featuring salt-of-the-earth folks in John Deere hats descanting their cracker-barrel wisdom about the state of the world.
From Salon • May 20, 2023
The doc is a cracker-barrel philosopher and occasional omniscient narrator in the folksy tradition of the Stage Manager of Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town.”
From New York Times • Oct. 2, 2018
Jane Kaczmarek brings her wholesome, cracker-barrel charm to the role of the Stage Manager.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 3, 2017
Now Schulberg wanted to denounce the power of television talkers; it’s said that his model was that cracker-barrel sage of radio and early TV, Arthur Godfrey.
From Time • Jul. 3, 2012
Our treasured and nostalgic picture of the village general store, the cracker-barrel store where an informed yeomanry gather to express opinions and formulate the national character, is very rapidly disappearing.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
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