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Meaning: (idiomatic,sometimes used as if singular)Ordinary,unpretentiouspeople; an ordinary, unpretentious person.Synonyms:just plain folks,regular folks1913,Eleanor H. Porter, chapter 21, inThe Sunbridge Girls at Six Star Ranch:"You still think they come all boxed, sorted, and labeled, do you?" he said. "And that they aren't ‘just folks’ at all?""Yes, I still think so. They never seem a bit like ‘folks’ to me. It's their business to sit up there stiff and solemn and stern."1999,John Updike,Bech at Bay,→ISBN,page24:He was happy . . . to be going out to a restaurant without having to sign books or talk to students about Whitman and Melville. . . . Idolized Bech loved, at the end of a long day impersonating himself, beingjust folks.2005January 11, Ruth La Ferla, “What the First Lady Will Wear”, inNew York Times, retrieved4 December 2012:"She has gone from beingjust folksto being a bit imperial, assuming a bit more of a queenly role," said Ms. Allgor.; (idiomatic,attributively,sometimeshyphenated)Unpretentious,informal,down-to-earth.1961,Robert A. Heinlein,Stranger in a Strange Land, New York: Avon,→OCLC,page43:Even his mussed cravat and cow licked hair had a "just folks" quality.2001June 24,Margaret Carlson, “Shear Dismay”, inTime:George Bush's attempt atjust-folksnormalcy was undermined when he turned a blind eye to his chief of staff flying military jets to private appointments.
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