John Q. Public

短语

发音

AU

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A generic individual; some hypothetical average or ordinary citizen.

    习语 不可数

    Near-synonyms: everyman; Tom, Dick or Harry; Joe Sixpack

    Even careful safety precautions in the factory do not make it a good place for John Q. Public to wander unattended.

词源

First use appears c. 1938. John Q. Public was the name of a character created by Vaughn Shoemaker, an editorial cartoonist for the Chicago Daily News from 1922 to 1952; Shoemaker introduced this character in 1922 but is believed to have added the "Q." sometime in the early 1930s.https://www.nytimes.com/1991/08/22/obituaries/vaughn-shoemaker-created-john-q-public.html Compare also John Doe.

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