great unwashed

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IPA（発音記号）

/ˌɡɹeɪt ʌnˈwɒʃt/

名詞

軽蔑的 慣用表現 複数形 複数形のみ

(idiomatic, derogatory) The general populace, particularly the working class.

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Despite his claims of being a man of the people, he dismissed the great unwashed as incapable of appreciating fine literature.

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意味（1）

(idiomatic, derogatory) The general populace, particularly the working class.

[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 the Great 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.

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