plain folks



bourgeoisie, common people, common run, common sort, commonality, commonalty, commoners, commons, labourers, lower classes, lower middle class, lower orders, lumpen proletariat, middle class, middle orders,

   davit - companion, hoist, parts, ship ,

   degradable - ablative, biodegradable, corrosive, decomposable, decomposing, dilapidated, disintegrated, disintegrating, disjunctive, disruptive, erosive, mouldering, ravaged, resolvent, ruinous,

   basis - a priori principle, aetiology, affirmation, ambition, angle, angle of vision, antecedents, aspiration, assertion, assumed position, assumption, axiom, base, basement, bearing wall,

   set at hazard - chance, gamble on, hazard, risk, take chances, venture, wager ,

   flying phalanger - animal, antelope, armadillo, bat, elephant, hare, horse, kangaroo, mammal, opossum, pig, platypus, rat ,

   make a reconnaissance - bug, case, peep, reconnoitre, scout, spy, stake out, watch ,

   thrashing - Waterloo, assault, basting, battering, battery, beating, belting, buffeting, caning, castigation, chastisement, clubbing, collapse, conquering, conquest,

   high and low - all over, all round, everywhere, pole, throughout, under the sun, universally ,

   conclave - assembly, assignation, at home, audience, ball, bargaining, bargaining session, brawl, caucus, chapter, colloquium, commission, committee, concourse, confab,

   atomic beam - X ray, beam, gamma ray, patch, pencil, photon, radiation, ray, ribbon, solar rays, streak, stream, streamer, ultraviolet ray ,