men

See:
  • (one's) own man/woman/person
  • a committee is a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours
  • a drowning man will clutch at a straw
  • a drowning man will grab at a straw
  • a drowning man will grasp at a straw
  • a man of few words
  • a man of his word
  • a man/woman of the people
  • a man/woman on a mission
  • a man/woman with a mission
  • a rich man's joke is always funny
  • a whistling woman and a crowing hen are neither fit for God nor men
  • a wise man of Gotham
  • all able-bodied people
  • all men are created equal
  • all things to all men
  • all things to all men, to be
  • all things to all people, be
  • angry young man
  • as many
  • barrow man
  • be (one's) own man/woman/person
  • be all things to all men
  • be all things to all men/people
  • best-laid plans of mice and men oft go astray
  • boss man
  • busiest men have the most leisure
  • collar-and-tie men
  • company man
  • dead men tell no tales
  • dead men's shoes
  • dirty old man
  • evil triumphs when good men do nothing
  • face man
  • family man
  • fools build houses and wise men live in them
  • front man
  • Fuller Brush man
  • fuzz man
  • G-man
  • good men are scarce
  • good time man
  • hatchet man
  • Heaven protects children and drunken men
  • heaven protects children, sailors, and drunken men
  • high man on the totem pole
  • hired man
  • hit man
  • iceman
  • in layman's terms
  • iron man
  • it's ill waiting for dead men's shoes
  • kept man
  • leg man
  • man of color
  • man of God
  • man of ill repute
  • man of letters
  • man of many parts
  • man of means
  • man of the cloth
  • man/woman/gentleman/lady of leisure
  • medallion man
  • men (and women) in blue
  • men are blind in their own cause
  • men in blue
  • men in suits
  • men in white coats
  • men make houses, women make homes
  • men who have sex with men
  • muscleman
  • not all men
  • point man
  • real men don't eat quiche
  • red man
  • Renaissance man
  • repo man
  • self-made man
  • separate the men from the boys
  • separate the men from the boys, to
  • sort out the men from the boys
  • sort out/separate the men from the boys
  • step into dead men's shoes
  • stick man
  • straight man
  • straw man
  • strong-arm man
  • the best of men are but men at best
  • the best-laid plans of mice and men
  • the best-laid plans of mice and men oft go astray
  • the best-laid schemes o' mice an' men gang aft a-gley
  • the best-laid schemes of mice and men
  • the busiest men find the most time
  • the busiest men have the most leisure
  • the men in gray suits
  • the men in suits
  • the men in white coats
  • there is a tide in the affairs of men
  • tit(s)-man
  • T-man
  • twelve good men and true
  • wait for dead men's shoes
  • wheel man
  • white man
  • white-van man
  • yes man
  • young men may die, but old men must die
References in classic literature
"In the spring, he went down the Yukon with the young men to trade at Cambell Fort.
"The young men are much afraid of the bad water at Cambell Fort.
These new associations are composed of men and women of superior talents and sentiments; yet it may easily be questioned whether such a community will draw, except in its beginnings, the able and the good; whether those who have energy will not prefer their chance of superiority and power in the world, to the humble certainties of the association; whether such a retreat does not promise to become an asylum to those who have tried and failed, rather than a field to the strong; and whether the members will not necessarily be fractions of men, because each finds that he cannot enter it, without some compromise.
But the men of less faith could not thus believe, and to such, concert appears the sole specific of strength.
"We set two men on the divide, one for the day and one for the night, to watch if the Meat-Eaters came.
Men without wives wanted other men's wives, and there was much fighting between men, and now and again one got his head smashed or a spear through his body.
The restless doors of saloons, clashing to and fro, disclosed animated rows of men before bars and hurrying barkeepers.
He laid stress upon the purity of his motives in all dealings with men in the world and spoke of the fervor of his friendship for those who were amiable.
Hairy monsters were overcoming his fighting men, and a black chieftain like himself was fighting shoulder to shoulder with the hideous pack that opposed him.
"Another white man `came in peace' three moons ago," replied Kaviri; "and after we had brought him presents of a goat and cassava and milk, he set upon us with his guns and killed many of my people, and then went on his way, taking all of our goats and many of our young men and women."
Was this deadly silent, rough-coated terrier the thing destined to destroy him where men had failed?
54-59) `Son of Iapetus, surpassing all in cunning, you are glad that you have outwitted me and stolen fire -- a great plague to you yourself and to men that shall be.
Schopenhauer appeals to Nietzsche's deepest and strongest sentiment--his sympathy for higher men. "Why dost thou conceal thyself?" he cries.
The young men rode up to the wounded man to announce that they were followed by the priest.
Saith he, If it be well weighed, to say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards men. For a lie faces God, and shrinks from man.