"common touch" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Audio: en-au-common touch.ogg [Australia] Forms: common touches [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} common touch (plural common touches)
  1. (idiomatic) The personal quality of showing understanding of and sympathy for the concerns of ordinary people; rapport with and acceptance by ordinary people, usually in a celebrity or leader. Tags: idiomatic Related terms: man of the people, just folks, unpretentiousness Translations (Translations): tietämys kansan oloista (Finnish), tietämys rahvaan oloista (Finnish), wyrozumiałość [feminine] (Polish)
    Sense id: en-common_touch-en-noun-hR-mYQCK Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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