working stiff

Every working stiff in other lines of work has that.

You're talking about the working stiff; someone who's worked hard all his or her life and has a few dollars left over.

We are going to treat this like any working stiff, they were saying.

And I'm only a working stiff with a limp, remember?

"I've been a working stiff all my life," the father says.

"My guy's just a working stiff who's won a lot of money."

But how does the regular working stiff handle these negotiations?

The guy was a working stiff who had heart.

If you're a working stiff, here's a way to stretch your dollar.

He's just another working stiff, trying to make it in New York.

I mean what the rest of us working stiffs get to use."

"Just get out and let a working stiff alone?"

For working stiffs, however, life is lived in the "short run."

But I don't feel like cheating a fellow working stiff today.

He had been a working stiff for decades, and didn't make close to that kind of dough.

In corporate America, what separates stars from working stiffs is not always clear.

Movies about working stiffs have never been numerous or particularly popular in this country.

Most working stiffs can barely manage a weekend road trip.

He's got that working stiff, been-there-done-that quality in almost everything he does.

"For a working stiff who can't write it off, it's a big deal."

Oh, yeah, you working stiffs don't understand, I have a complicated life.

Still, he sometimes has that nagging thought familiar to anyone who crossed the line from working stiff to professional.

"Instead, I'm slugging it out 12 hours a day as a working stiff.

Working stiffs like me can't afford to take that kind of time away from our jobs.

There's a sense of a widening separation between command and the working stiffs.