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working stiff
noun[ C ]
USinformalukus
WORKPLACE
someone who does an ordinary job that is often not very well paid:
Executives at City Hall are earning around three times more than the working stiffs.
Examples of working stiff
working stiff
You never saw a workingstiff happier to be working, never saw a lunch-pail guy more delighted to punch a clock day after day.
From New York Post
It's the dream of every workingstiff to be making more than the boss.
From Chicago Daily Herald
He is both iconoclast and workingstiff; company man and virtuoso.
From TIME
He was fond of emphasizing that the working stiffs were smarter, and better on the main points, than the educated.
From Washington Post
But the policy was presumably not drawn up to enable lowly working stiffs to subsidize their well-heeled superiors.
From NOLA.com
The ruling catapulted 150 working stiffs to the upper echelons of city wage earners.
From New York Daily News
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