workingman
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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
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
Historians still debate over whom, specifically, to credit with the idea of a holiday dedicated to the workingman.
From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2015
Sting also coaxed out of retirement Jimmy Nail, a tall, rugged-faced actor and singer beloved in England for his long-running television role as a Geordie workingman; he will play Gideon’s father.
From New York Times ● Sep. 12, 2013
After all he’s a friend of the workingman, he’s Italian, and they’re a warm weather people.
From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
If the court kept overturning the New Deal, he reasoned, there would be “marching farmers and marching miners and marching workingmen throughout the land.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2024
By 1842, thousands of workingmen were rallying in Independence Square in Philadelphia to lament “the want of employment among the industrious classes.”
From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2021
These were workingmen, providers, not activists but voters, certainly.
From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 2020
Ambitious clerks and workingmen came next, perhaps influenced by the example of their employers.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
Owen’s plan was to welcome everyone, even to the point of encouraging workingmen to visit in the evening, and to devote most of the museum’s space to public displays.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
