great unwashed

or Great Unwashed

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noun
  1. the general public; the populace or masses.

Origin of great unwashed

1
First recorded in 1855–60

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How to use great unwashed in a sentence

  • He shirked the element itself, however, as religiously as though he had been one of London's great unwashed.

    Mystic London: | Charles Maurice Davies