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"text": "Quoting Joe Public proved a dangerous game in the 2008 US presidential elections after he was personified in Joe 'the' Plumber, an actual plumber without previous media exposure."
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"(idiomatic) A hypothetical average or generic member of the public; the common man (or person, by extension)."
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"sense": "a hypothetical average or generic member of the public",
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