hoi-polloi

This makes no sense at all, is completely backwards in fact, unless by “raising standards” they mean “chasing out the hoi-polloi.”

Matthew Yglesias » Third Way: Let’s Stimuluate The Economy Through Permanent Tax Cuts! 2009

As an editor and author working in a part of the SF/F publishing world that the genre hoi-polloi love to dismiss, I can tell you that we've been proceeding, here at Wizards of the Coast, along pretty much exactly the lines you've drawn here.

[GUEST POST] Sarah A. Hoyt on The Death of Science Fiction: It Ain't Over Till The Fat Droid Sings 2010

As was well known, when Harris Collins performed he performed only for the elite, for the hoi-polloi of the trained-animal world.

CHAPTER XXVII 2010

But 1,600 feet above the hoi-polloi, the city seems different.

The World's Highest Hotel 2010

This status would allow us to skip the ranks of hoi-polloi flyers and join the expedited line, which is my preference, because those knotty, teeming security lines are the most dangerous places in airports: terrorists could paralyze U.S. aviation merely by detonating a bomb at any security checkpoint, all of which are, of course, entirely unsecured.

Boing Boing 2008

Styles of music and painting might evolve in pursuit of truth and ultimate form, but the fluctuating styles of skirts or sofas were seen merely to entice the gullible or put down the hoi-polloi.

Fashion as Art 2010

This status would allow us to skip the ranks of hoi-polloi flyers and join the expedited line, which is my preference, because those knotty, teeming security lines are the most dangerous places in airports: terrorists could paralyze U.S. aviation merely by detonating a bomb at any security checkpoint, all of which are, of course, entirely unsecured.

The Things He Carried 2008

This status would allow us to skip the ranks of hoi-polloi flyers and join the expedited line, which is my preference, because those knotty, teeming security lines are the most dangerous places in airports: terrorists could paralyze U.S. aviation merely by detonating a bomb at any security checkpoint, all of which are, of course, entirely unsecured.

The Things He Carried 2008

Palin, however, will have to keep the buzz alive long enough to keep filling bookstores (and the coffers of her political action committee), so she can provide her family with the kind of hoi-polloi lifestyle Real Americans can only dream of.

Susan J. Demas: Sarah Palin's Lady Gaga Tour of Michigan 2009

Which is probably what actually happened to them; and why they are now trying to get their own back on the hoi-polloi by means of the bombastic bullshit they now shower on the electorate.

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009