man on the street | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic)Anordinarymemberof thegeneral public, especially one who lacks specialexpertise.Synonyms:man in the street,man on the Clapham omnibus;Joe Average,John Q. Public(see more synonyms there)Near-synonyms:layman,everyman1919, Lee Meriwether,The War Diary of a Diplomat, Dodd, Mead and Company, page173:Such was the airy way with which, not an illiterateman on the street, but a brilliant woman of the world disposed of a tremendous historical fact.2004, Steve Rushin,The Caddie Was a Reindeer: And Other Tales of Extreme Recreation, Atlantic Monthly Press,,→ISBN, page214:"When do the Olympics begin?" a reporter from a Nagano television station asks me in aman-on-the-streetinterview.2005, Hisashi Nasu, “Between the Everyday Life-World and the World of Social Scientific Theory—Towards an “Adequate” Social Thory”, in Martin Endress, George Psathas, Hisashi Nasu, editors,Explorations of the Life-World: Continuing Dialogues with Alfred Schutz, Springer,→ISBN, page136:It is not only theman on the streetwho is characterized by taking one's own system of relevance for granted. This holds true for the expert,....

Examples:

EN: stranger than any man on the street
ES: ¡Más extraño que cualquiera de la calle!
EN: The girl can't connect the man on the street with him that came in the house.
ES: La chica no vio como el tipo entraba en la casa.
EN: Spread all over the city by special cars. Newsies starts selling to the man on the street.
ES: Listos para ser vendidos.
EN: Now, next to Chuck Connors, you are the most popular man on the street.
ES: Junto con Chuck Connors, es usted el hombre más célebre en el Bowery.
EN: They're always interested in talking to the man on the street.
ES: Siempre interesados en la opinión del hombre de la calle.
EN: You saw the man on the street tonight, I...
ES: Ya ha visto antes al hombre de la calle.
EN: What? A man on the street, he has his own worries, and his petty little greeds and preoccupations, etcetera, etcetera.
ES: El hombre de la calle tiene sus propias preocupaciones y pequeñas codicias, sus tres empleos, etcétera, etcétera.
EN: A while ago I saw a man on the street.
ES: A un lugar donde fui vi un hombre en la calle.
EN: Yeah, and the old man on the street, eh?
ES: Sí, y con el viejo que se pone en la calle, ¿eh?
EN: I'll go out and pick up a man this minute, a tramp, anybody, a man on the street, and I'll let him have me.
ES: Voy a saliry voy a ligarme a un tío, a cualquiertío y le dejaré que me lo haga.
EN: It's not getting out and confronting, and fighting the man on the street... because right now he's got the power, and he's gonna win.
ES: No se trata de salir a enfrentarse y luchar con el hombre blanco, porque justo ahora él tiene el poder y ganará.
EN: I think the man on the street had the same feeling of being taken by complete surprise.
ES: Creo que el hombre de la calle tenía el mismo sentimiento de ser tomado por sorpresa.
EN: - Not that nonsense you talk! But Mr. Leber is a professional, able to explain things very, very clearly, even to the man on the street.
ES: ... no es la palabrería, ...sino el Sr. Leber, quien es capaz de explicar las cosas muy claramente, incluso a la gente sencilla.
EN: The man on the street!
ES: El hombre de la calle.
EN: Melissa... pick up a man on the street?
ES: ¿Melissa? ¿Escoger un hombre en la calle?

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