"man on the street" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1919, Lee Meriwether, The War Diary of a Diplomat, Dodd, Mead and Company, page 173:",
          "text": "Such was the airy way with which, not an illiterate man on the street, but a brilliant woman of the world disposed of a tremendous historical fact.",
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          "text": "\"When do the Olympics begin?\" a reporter from a Nagano television station asks me in a man-on-the-street interview.",
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          "ref": "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, page 136:",
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        "(idiomatic) An ordinary member of the general public, especially one who lacks special expertise."
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