Hoi Polloi

As was well known, when Harris Collins performed he performed only for the elite, for the hoi-polloi of the trained-animal world. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

This makes no sense at all, is completely backwards in fact, unless by “raising standards” they mean “chasing out the hoi-polloi.” ❋ Unknown (2009)

But 1,600 feet above the hoi-polloi, the city seems different. ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ Unknown (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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It will, with complete lack of shame, beg for work from big-name writers that the hoi-polloi like to read (because they're FUN). ❋ Unknown (2007)

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. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Indeed that privilege marked them out from the ordinary hoi-polloi. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Apart, that is, for essential celebrities, VIPs and politicians who – by the very nature of their wealth and importance - need to keep the prying eyes of the hoi-polloi out of their business. ❋ David Hadley (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. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Possibly some of the rest of us in the hoi-polloi use logic and fact to make our judgements? ❋ Ann Althouse (2009)

But, my point was that professionals and experts might notice elements of a performance that we in the hoi-polloi do not, and while it may not bug you or me, the fact that amplification was used might bother someone else. ❋ Ann Althouse (2009)

With our backs to our absurdly overpriced and over-mortgaged property, and distracted by the view, we can forget our foolishness and condescend to the hoi-polloi down below. ❋ Newmania (2007)

Change should happen slowly enough that we, the hoi-polloi, can not recognize that doctrine depends on people - otherwise we may lose "confidence", or in other word, the priests will lose their togas. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Mike Rehmeyer is [uneducated], has mom tell him how to think and what to do and [mooches] off the state for a living. That must make him one of the [Hoi Polloi]. ❋ Rexormhe (2008)

George " We are glad to have the hoi polloi because without them we would not maintain our own standards and would have to do [menial] work." Chuck "You pretentious [dickwad], I just love it when you kick yourself in the ass, and don't even know it!" George " What are you talking about? I imagine you are one of the hoi polloi I was talking about!" Chuck "Stop it, I'm [pissing myself]!" ❋ HoiPolly (2010)

[Election year] again... those hoi polloi are still going to let themselves be [manipulated] into [voting] for the wrong guy. ❋ Sylvain (2004)

We [read] The [Atlantic]; hoi polloi read [People]. ❋ Octopod (2004)

''The real [hoi] polloi'' 1. A person who votes for and or likes George Bush. 2. A person who you can't expect much from. Someone who thinks they're witty for liking something thats uncommon yet is the biggest hypocrite of them all and listens to other people for [guidance]. 3.A person who can't support and or think for themselves and relies on someone to take care of them. A person who claims others are the 'hoi polloi' yet [dosen't] realize they're even lower than that. ❋ Uranes (2007)

[Party boy] : [I don't know you]. What the hell. Stranger : I'm a hoi polloi [Party Boy] : Shit, man! Security!! ❋ Nice_boi (2011)

[You are] [Hoi Polloi] ❋ Smokechedda (2023)