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Examples
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"You surely don't imagine that I would get out on the floor with all this hoi-poloi?"
Quin Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice 1906
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Instead the PM will be hunkering down in Economy with the hoi-poloi, accompanied by his heavily pregnant wife Sam, 100 political staff, a posse of special protection cops, two hairdressers, a manicurist, Boris Johnson's wife's tarot reader, an NHS psychiatrist and an official Foreign Orifice translator/interpreter.
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After all, unlike the mad hoi-poloi that can be places like Twitter, this returns context to the original framework that is Facebook.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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With Quebec Major Junior Hockey League commissioner Gilles Courteau due to mete out punishment today for Cormier's elbow to the head of Mikael Tam, the hockey hoi-poloi are wondering whether Cormier's status as captain of the Canadian junior team and a relatively high (54th overall) pick of the New Jersey Devils means he gets a break.
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They'd rather live in an oasis of wealthy people with multi-million dollar homes without having to deal with the hoi-poloi who actually have to work for a living.
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