"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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          "ref": "2004, Steve Rushin, The Caddie Was a Reindeer: And Other Tales of Extreme Recreation, Atlantic Monthly Press,, page 214",
          "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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        "(idiomatic) An ordinary member of the general public, especially one who lacks special expertise."
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          "word": "average Joe"
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          "word": "John Q. Public"
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          "word": "layman"
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          "word": "man in the street"
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          "word": "man on the Clapham omnibus"
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          "word": "homme de la rue"
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