hoi polloi
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Even better, how about offering more leg room in all rows and eliminating middle seats as a gesture to the hoi polloi?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
But the difference between championship-caliber teams such as Milwaukee and the league’s hoi polloi is knowing how to turn an inch into a mile.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 5, 2023
Hardly anyone got a pay raise in 2020 as the pandemic savaged the economy—except those in the Executive Class—while in 2021 modest pay raises for the hoi polloi were widespread.
From Salon ● Nov. 3, 2022
No pestilence had been ever so fatal, or so hideous,” begins Poe’s 1842 tale about a prince who parties with revelers safely locked away in his posh castle while the hoi polloi outside perish.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 22, 2022
Presumably they were used to dazzle hoi polloi.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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