hombre de la calle

(n.) = layman [laymen, -pl.], lay person [layperson]

Ex. Mechanization may yet force the issue, especially in the scientific field; whereupon scientific jargon would become still less intelligible to the layman.

Ex. This is an evaluative tool which brings lay people together with experts, under pressure of limited time, for study of specific problems.

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el hombre de la calle

= common man, the, man-on-the-street, man in the street, the

Ex: Librarians in turn were forced to assess their successes and failures in reaching the common man.

Ex: On December 8, 1941, Lomax sent a telegram urging folklorists around the United States to collect and record man-on-the-street reactions to the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the subsequent declaration of war by the United States.

Ex: But the man in the street wouldn't know them from Adam.

(n.) = layman [laymen, -pl.], lay person [layperson]

Ex: Mechanization may yet force the issue, especially in the scientific field; whereupon scientific jargon would become still less intelligible to the layman.

Ex: This is an evaluative tool which brings lay people together with experts, under pressure of limited time, for study of specific problems.

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hombre de la calle

fig

man in the street