little man
Noun
Meaning
An ordinary man of no particular fame or accomplishment.
(colloquial, term of address) A young boy.
And how are you, my little man?
(euphemistic) A male person with dwarfism, or short stature resulting from a medical condition.
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What is troubling us is the tendency to believe that the mind is like a little man within.
In Western Europe people perish from the congestion and stifling closeness, but with us it is from the spaciousness.... The expanses are so great that the little man hasn't the resources to orient himself.... This is what I think about Russian suicides.
Then that little man in black there, he says women can't have as much rights as men, 'cause Christ wasn't a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him.
We should work for simple, good, undecorated things, but things which are in harmony with the human being and organically suited to the little man in the street.
A little man often cast a long shadow.
A little man fells a great oak.