English-French translations for man in the street

• clampin
• homme de la rue
  La grande question, c'est: est-ce que ces progrès sont suffisants aux yeux de l'homme de la rue? The big question is, does the man in the street think enough progress has been made?
  L'homme de la rue veut savoir ce que l'Union a accompli et quel impact ces actions ont sur sa propre vie. The man in the street wants to know what the Union has achieved and how it has affected him.
  Je ne sais pas non plus si la femme ou l'homme de la rue comprend ce que nous entendons par là. I do not know whether the ordinary man or woman in the street understands what we mean by that.
• individu lambda
• Madame Tout-le-Monde
• monsieur Tout-le-monde
• pékin de base
• pékin moyen
• simple quidam

Definition of man in the street

• A typical person, unversed in a given subject; an inexpert commoner

Related words

• man in the moon
• in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king
• in the memory of man
• man is the measure of all things
• it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kin