working stiff
Example Sentences
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If the Emmy Drama Roundtable proves anything, it’s that even the stars of TV’s buzziest shows are familiar with the indignities of the working stiff.
From Los Angeles Times • May 25, 2022
The thing about this virus is that it doesn’t care if you are a working stiff, a prince, or a movie star.
From Fox News • Mar. 26, 2020
Though he was born into genuine if provincial affluence, with second-tier European royalty filling out the family’s dance card on vacation, he chose to become a working stiff.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 13, 2020
You might even miss her whining once she matures into a working stiff.
From Slate • Jan. 10, 2019
During August Dick had labored in the alfalfa fields of Central Washington, a harvest hand or "working stiff" among other migratory agricultural workers.
From The Breaking Point by Rinehart, Mary Roberts
