hoi polloi

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Hoi polloi: If you have to ask, you’re surely one of them.

From Washington Post • Dec. 1, 2016

Let the prophets and sybils, the augurs and oracles of the Hoi polloi address themselves to them; and let ours talk to us, not about us to the world at large.

From The Streets of Ascalon Episodes in the Unfinished Career of Richard Quarren, Esqre. by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)

Hoi polloi could have their Nice and their Cannes!

From Riviera Towns by Gibbons, Herbert Adams

Hoi polloi had used another entrance by which to climb to the upper galleries.

From Long Live the King! by Rinehart, Mary Roberts