workingman
Example Sentences
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The free market revolutionary as an average Joe, chatting up the workingman.
From New York Times • Apr. 5, 2022
They want the moribund broadsheet to trounce the Daily Mail and become the voice of the British workingman.
From The New Yorker • Apr. 29, 2019
Bruno Sammartino was pro wrestling’s workingman champion and longtime box-office draw.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 28, 2018
It’s what a workingman might eat standing up while his daintier compatriots nibble on nigiri at a proper sushi bar; sushi that occasionally improves in a 7-Eleven refrigerator case.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 20, 2017
Mr. Hannon says, Up you get, and I climb up on the float like any workingman.
From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
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