woman in the street

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“The average man and woman in the street probably doesn’t care a lot about it,” said Charles Bullock, a political science professor at the University of Georgia.

From Slate • May 23, 2022

"The smallest things upset me. The other day I jumped when a woman in the street hiccupped as she walked past me."

From Fox News • Dec. 5, 2019

“It was the need of the nation, the need of the average man and woman in the street, the businessman, the mother, the fireman, the teacher — everyone wanted respect,” she wrote in her autobiography.

From New York Times • Aug. 16, 2018

But economic sanctions require considerable time to take effect and are a blunt tool; harming the country's economy inevitably hurts the ordinary man or woman in the street.

From BBC • Jun. 12, 2012

At sunset on the fourth day, he saw a woman meet another woman in the street, and between the two there passed a communication with the fingers.

From Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians by Miller, Elizabeth