| 词汇 | working-stiff |
| 释义 | 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 stiffworking 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 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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