man on the street

American  

noun

1. man in the street.

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man on the street

“How are you staying optimistic?” a TV reporter is seen asking a man on the street.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 5, 2026

For the past fifty years, his shadow has loomed large over parliament, the media, football and the man on the street.

From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2023

"They had a network that varied from judges and lawyers, to law enforcement to sheriffs, to the average man on the street who served on the jury. They were the law in this area."

From Salon ● Feb. 24, 2023

“The intelligent man on the street is going to say that’s a bunch of baloney,” he said in a 2017 argument about the consequences of adopting one way to measure partisan gerrymandering.

From New York Times ● Nov. 7, 2022

I lifted up the first, blank, page, and surveyed those beneath, to see, as Bono quoth, what the man on the street was wearing.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson