Noun
member of the public (plural members of the public)
A regular or normal citizen, as opposed to an official or agent acting in an official capacity.
I propose a Constitutional Amendment providing that, if any public official, elected or appointed, at any level of government, is caught lying to any member of the public for any reason, the punishment shall be death by public hanging. L. Neil Smith
(When asked about the method for a trick where a member of the public answers a public pay-phone only to immediately slump to the floor as if asleep) I was saying ‘there's fifty quid under the phone book. Just pretend. You're on TV'. Derren Brown
It sounds deeply shallow, but for brief spells every member of the public can be fascinating. Graham Norton
Mass ought to be in Latin, unless you could do it in Greek or Chinese. In fact, any abracadabra that no bloody member of the public or half-educated ape of a clargimint could think he understood. Ezra Pound