gray man
短语词形变化
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An average, forgettable man who does not draw attention or stand out in a crowd.
He was said to be a perfect match for his own description of the ideal intelligence officer, "the traditional gray man, so inconspicuous that he can never catch a waiter's eye in a restaurant."
2000, "Cassidy's Run: The Secret Spy War Over Nerve Gas", David Wise, pg.13-3, →ISBN But perhaps that is why he was chosen for his role — a gray man who blended almost invisibly into the background.
“Your goal is to be the gray man,” says Clinton Emerson, a former Navy SEAL and trainer for the CIA and NSA who now works at the special-ops site SOFREP.
The Gray Man is in between. He is neither blinged-out nor loud, but also not a head-down, foot-shuffling sheep.
The Gray Man does not stand out negatively amongst the instructors, but receives good peer evaluations from his classmates.
词源
From gray (“bland, indistinct”) + man (“person”).
来源：wiktionary