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Phrase(s): the great unwashed Fig. the general public; the lower middle class. • The Simpsons had a tall iron fence around their mansion—put there to discourage the great unwashed from wandering up to the door by mistake, I suppose. • Maw says the great unwashed don’t know enough to come in out of the rain.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs