man
as - as the next man as - as the average person.
2011DVD Verdict I appreciate a good dollop of gore as much as the next man (as long as he likes gore by the barrel full [sic]).
be your own man (or woman): seeown.
every man for himself: seeevery.
every man has his price: seeprice.
man about town a fashionable male socialite.
man and boy throughout life from youth.
☞ The Scottish poet William Dunbar used the phrase baith man and lad in the early 16th century, but the modern usage follows Shakespeare's Hamlet: 'I have been sexton here, man and boy, thirty years'.
man cannot live by bread alone: seebread.
a man for all seasons a man who is ready to cope with any contingency and whose behaviour is always appropriate to every occasion.
☞ Robert Whittington applied this description to the English statesman and scholar Sir Thomas More (1478–1535), and it was used by Robert Bolt as the title of his 1960 play about More.
the man in black: seeblack.
the man in the moon
1 the imagined likeness of a face seen on the surface of a full moon.
2 used, especially in comparisons, to refer to someone regarded as out of touch with real life.
❷1991Sight & Sound You thought…you could mention even the most famous classic films as reference points in script meetings and not be looked at like the man in the moon.
the man in (or on) the street an ordinary person, usually with regard to their opinions, or as distinct from an expert.
☞ A specifically British variation of this expression is the man on the Clapham omnibus (see below).
man mountain a very large man; a giant.
☞ The expression was originally used as a name for Gulliver by the Lilliputians in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726).
man of action: seeaction.
man of the cloth a clergyman.
☞ Jonathan Swift used cloth as an informal term for the clerical profession in the early 18th century, but it was earlier applied to several other occupations for which distinctive clothing was worn, e.g. the legal or military professions.
man of God
1 a clergyman.
2 a holy man or saint.
a man of letters: seeletter.
man of the moment a man of importance at a particular time.
man of straw (or straw man)
1 a person compared to an effigy stuffed with straw; a sham.
2 a sham argument set up to be defeated, usually as a means of avoiding having to tackle an opponent's real arguments.
❷ 2013 Bryan Caplan, Arnold Kling & David HendersonLibrary of Economics & Liberty It sets up as a straw man a perfect, frictionless market and then concludes that because in reality there are no such things, the case for free markets is thereby undermined.
a man of the world: seeworld.
the man on the Clapham omnibus the average man, especially with regard to his opinions. British
☞ This expression is attributed to the English judge Lord Bowen (1835–94), who used it as a metaphor for any ordinary reasonable person-such as a juror is expected to be. Clapham is a district in south London.
man's best friend an affectionate or humorous way of referring to a dog.
a man's man a man whose personality is such that he is more popular and at ease with other men than with women.
☞ This expression was apparently first used in George Du Maurier's story The Martian (1897), where the man's man is defined as 'a good comrade par excellence, a frolicsome chum, a rollicking boon-companion, a jolly pal'. A man's woman, which dates from the early 20th century, is a woman who is more at ease with men than with other women.
1991Men's Health Masculinity used to be simple to define. If you had hair on your chest and a deep voice, and belonged to a club that excluded women, you were masculine, or, as was the phrase of the time, 'a man's man'.
man the barricades: seebarricade.
man to man in a direct and frank way between two men; openly and honestly.
the Man Upstairs God. informal humorous
men in black: seeblack.
men in (grey) suits powerful men within an organization who exercise their influence or authority anonymously.
men in white coats psychiatrists or psychiatric workers (used to imply that someone is mad or mentally unbalanced). humorous
2009The Book Show (ABC Radio) Most British prime ministers go mad at the end … After year nine you can see the moonbeams start dancing around their heads and the men in white coats have to come and drag them out of 10 Downing St.
see a man about a dog: seedog.
separate (or sort out) the men from the boys show or prove which people in a group are truly competent, brave, or mature.
1968House & Garden The Dry Martini…is a drink that will quickly separate the men from the boys and the girls from their principles.
to a man without exception.
twelve good men and true: seetwelve.
yesterday's man: seeyesterday.
you are (or he is) the man used as a commendation of someone's sterling qualities. US slang
2010SeoBook Can I just say, you are the man! You are 100% correct in your standpoint of both SEO outing practices, and also in your view of the media as a whole.