man's man
Example Sentences
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His unnamed, unrefined spy who liked to cook was in stark relief to the suave man’s man that was James Bond and an uncomfortable sight for some of the producers of the film adaptation.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026
Sting called Moss “an elder brother, a wise head, a man’s man and a mensch.”
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 16, 2023
Yet that didn't make him enough of a man for Prince Philip, who was into Charles being a man's man type of guy.
From Salon • May 5, 2023
There’s Rafter in 2001, proving a man’s man again after lurking two points from defeat against Andre Agassi in a towering semifinal.
From Washington Post • Jul. 2, 2020
Ray Veech, a man’s man, who spent his life under cars with grease up to his elbows.
From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck
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