great unwashed

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˌɡɹeɪt ʌnˈwɒʃt/    美 /ˌɡɹeɪt ʌnˈwɔːʃt/|/ˌɡɹeɪt ʌnˈwɑːʃt/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The general populace, particularly the working class. derogatory,idiomatic,plural,plural-only
    — [T]he gentlemen of the inns of court, and the gentlemen of the universities… live in abodes which were erected long before the custom of cleanliness and decency obtained among us. … Gentlemen, there can be but little doubt that your ancestors were the Great Unwashed: and in the Temple especially, it is pretty certain, that only under the greatest difficulties and restrictions the virtue which has been pronounced to be next to godliness could have been practised at all.

词源

Though attributed by many to Edmund Burke, the first published use of the phrase was by Edward Bulwer-Lytton in a dedicatory epistle for 1830, Paul Clifford.
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