英语词汇man in the street的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	man in the street
词源	man in the street; man of the cars. The “ordinary” or “aver- age” person. The first term is recorded in 1831, when British statesman Charles Greville refers to it as a racing term in his di- ary. A similar 19th-century American phrase was man of the cars, referring to the streetcars of the time.
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