Working Stiff


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Working Stiff

Informal; an employee in a non-management position, especially one who is treated poorly. The term often is used in reference to tensions between corporate authorities and those under them.
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My own father, for instance, himself a working stiff from Brooklyn, was a proud Knight of Pythias for many years.
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Certainly the working stiff has tastes which are excited more by, say, NFL football or the Fox fall lineup than the Mapplethorpe exhibit.
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A happy-go-lucky hippy in the 60s, he started peddling dope to earn a little money and avoid becoming a working stiff like his dad.
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Webb presented the policeman as a blue-collar working stiff.
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Lopez's Charlie is an oh-so-adorable working stiff of the wacky La La Land variety (she walks dogs - probably just for the requisite poop joke - as well as toiling as a temp, yoga instructor, Little League coach, yada, yada, yada) who meets the man of her dreams (Michael Vartan playing a plot device) only to realize that the dream has a dark underbelly (Fonda).
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Too steep for your average working stiff, proclaimed the other half of our team.
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