great unwashed | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic,derogatory)The generalpopulace, particularly theworking class.Synonyms:hoi polloi,unwashed masses,great unhosed;see alsoThesaurus:commonalty1848November –1850December,William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 30, inThe History of Pendennis.[…], volume(please specify |volume=I or II), London:Bradbury and Evans,[…], published1849–1850,→OCLC:[T]he gentlemen of the inns of court, and the gentlemen of the universities… live in abodes which were erected long before the custom of cleanliness and decency obtained among us. … Gentlemen, there can be but little doubt that your ancestors were theGreat Unwashed: and in the Temple especially, it is pretty certain, that only under the greatest difficulties and restrictions the virtue which has been pronounced to be next to godliness could have been practised at all.1995, Christina Blizzard,Right Turn: How the Tories Took Ontario:The Liberal campaign was so carefully orchestrated that McLeod was never in a position to be confronted by thegreat unwashed. Unfortunately, thegreat unwashedrarely vote for a leader whom they have never met.

Examples:

EN: Still protecting the great unwashed?
ES: ¿Sigues protegiendo a la plebe?
EN: The majority of the great unwashed does not fit into this category.
ES: La mayoría de la plebe no pertenece a esta categoría.
EN: This is the ultimate degradation... forced to stand in line with the great unwashed.
ES: Ésta es la degradación máxima: me obligan a formarme con la plebe.
EN: Face it, you're just one of us, one of the great unwashed.
ES: Acéptalo, eres uno de nosotros, uno de los grandes sin lavar.
EN: Back so soon from the sport of the great unwashed?
ES: Volver tan pronto del deporte de la plebe?
EN: Oh... you don't want the "great unwashed" camping on your doorstep.
ES: Tú no quieres que los grandes desaliñados acampen en tu umbral.
EN: Give the great unwashed... a pair of oversized breasts and a happy ending... and they'll oink for more.
ES: Dale a las masas roñosas un par de pechos gigantes y un final feliz y los cerdos chillarán por más.
EN: To actually rub shoulders with the great unwashed?
ES: ¿Para mezclarnos con los indeseables?
EN: I feel at one with Whitman, shepherd of the great unwashed:
ES: Me siento uno con Whitman, pastor del populacho:
EN: The wrath of the great unwashed.
ES: ¡Coger un cubo de agua y bañarlo!
EN: The great unwashed multitudes who've made you as rich as you are.
ES: Las grandes multitudes... que te han hecho tan rico.
EN: And we shall deliver them from the ranks of the great unwashed with one thousand strokes each from the cleansing paddles of transformation.
ES: Los sacaremos del populacho asestándoles mil golpes a cada uno con las palas purificadoras de la transformación.
EN: Body-slamming my way onto the Number 9 with the great unwashed?
ES: ¿Apretujarme como sardina con los roñosos?
EN: He refers to anyone who earns less than £100,000 a year... as "a member of the great unwashed."
ES: Se refiera a cualquiera que gane menos de £100.000 por año... como "un miembro de los sucios."
EN: That's the problem with the great unwashed.
ES: Ese es el problema con los sucios.

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