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Great Unwashed (The)

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The artisan class. Burke first used the compound, but Sir Walter Scott popularised it.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Great Unknown (The)
Great Unwashed (The)
Great Wits Jump
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