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Mr. Average

NOUN
man in the street
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Why did I just go so overboard with Mr. Average here?

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 13, 2010

Mr. Average gets shares of an IPO not because he's lucky, but because the IPO was deemed too chancy for better clients.

From Time Magazine Archive

Make no mistake as to the attitude of Mr. Average Man.

From Time Magazine Archive

But inflation has made a mockery of the increase, and in fact Mr. Average is 2.5% poorer than he was last year and near ly 4.5% poorer than in 1972.

From Time Magazine Archive

They become afterwards exceptional, they vein here and there the surface, and Mr. Average stumbles over them and proceeds no farther.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864 by Various


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