man on the street
Americannoun
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“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
What is the artist saying about the man on the street by presenting him in this way?
From Textbooks ● Dec. 21, 2021
They never speak to a man on the street although he may have been in the night before.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
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