Namman hoi ( oyster sauce ) is also of Chinese origin.

A characteristic phrase is " high tide ," pronounced somewhat like " hoi toid ", and locals are referred to as high tiders or hoi toiders.

Riffraff is a term for the common people or hoi polloi, but with negative connotations.

Strauss's argument is not that the medieval writers he studies reserved one exoteric meaning for the many ( hoi polloi ) and an esoteric, hidden one for the few ( hoi aristoi ), but that, through rhetorical stratagems including self-contradiction and hyperboles, these writers succeeded in conveying their proper meaning at the tacit heart of their writings — a heart or message irreducible to " the letter " or historical dimension of texts.

Their name is a pun on the phrase hoi polloi meaning " the masses " or " the common people ".

They believe that their translation of hoi Ioudaioi as " the Jewish leaders " is accurate and that it " will reduce the perception of Anti-Semitism in the New Testament.

Hoi polloi (, hoi polloi, “ the many ”), an expression meaning " the many ", or in the strictest sense, " the majority " in Greek, is used in English to refer to the working class, commoners, " the masses " or " common people " in a derogatory sense.

Some linguistic prescriptivists and students of ancient Greek argue that, given that hoi is a definite article, the phrase " the hoi polloi " is redundant, akin to saying " the the masses ".

The word " alcohol ", for instance, derives from the Arabic al-kuhl, al being an article, yet " the alcohol " is universally accepted as good grammar ; relevant differences, however, are that a ) hoi polloi is transliterated but otherwise unmodified, whereas alcohol is altered in both pronunciation and associated spelling to form an independent word, and b ) hoi polloi is left standing as a multiple-word phrase, with one word devoted exclusively to the function of the definite article, whereas in alcohol the grammatical particle serving as an article is assimilated into the ( heavily modified ) word.

Gilbert's parallel use of canaille, plebs ( plebeians ), and hoi polloi makes it clear that the term is derogatory of the lower classes.

He goes on to say that " Q does not belong in the middle of the alphabet where it is, with the hoi polloi of the alphabet, with your'm ' ' n ' and ' p '.

In earlier historical periods, classist terms and phrases as hoi polloi or plebs, which are " derogatory of the lower classes ," were more commonly used than they are today.

The term " hoi polloi " was used in a dramatic scene in the 1989 film Dead Poets Society.

A moment ago I used the term ' hoi polloi.

He used the phrase " the hoi polloi ", to demonstrate the mistake he warned against.

Bob Garfield, co-host of NPR's On the Media program, 8 November 2005, used the phrase in reference to changing practices in the media, especially Wikipedia, " The people in the encyclopedia business, I understand, tend to sniff at the wiki process as being the product of the mere hoi polloi.

The phrase " hoi polloi " has been used to promote products and businesses.

The Seven Sages ( of Greece ) or Seven Wise Men ( Greek: οἱ ἑπτὰ σοφοί, hoi hepta sophoi ; c. 620 BC – 550 BC ) was the title given by ancient Greek tradition to seven early 6th century BC philosophers, statesmen and law-givers who were renowned in the following centuries for their wisdom.

The Three Stooges turn the tables on their hosts by calling them " hoi polloi " at the end.

New media and new inventions have also been described as being by or for the hoi polloi.

The term also appears in the 2010 HBO film, " You Don't Know Jack ", where Jack Kevorkian ( played by Al Pacino ) says, " If it's good enough for the aristoi, then it should be good enough for the hoi polloi.

Then remixes like " Chyangba hoi chyangba " by The Unity ( remix by DJ Raju ) and " Chhundaina " by Nepsydaz ( remix by DJ AJ ) were increasing in popularity and became more commercialised, while other Nepalese rappers published their music underground, even though their audiences were usually Nepalese living in the US, UK and elsewhere.

Gossip Girl ( TV series ) character Chuck Bass refers to fellow character Dan Humphrey as hoi polloi in episode 14 of the second season, " In The Realm of the Basses " He says " that's the problem with an open invitation.

: King turned the question to Kelley, saying, " Kitty, it is kind of hoi polloi, although it is an incredible sport in which, I have been told, that the horse is 80 percent of the game, the rider 20 percent.

* ~ Attic-Ionic hoi, hai ; houtoi, hautai.

** Shanghai steamed buns ( 上海小籠包 seong hoi siu lung baau ): These dumplings are filled with meat or seafood and are famous for their flavor and rich broth inside.

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The first was a moral and intellectual elite known as the aristoi, or " the good ", ( not necessarily meaning those of noble birth ) and the second was the hoi polloi, or " the many ", who were viewed as an unthinking, conforming mass.

For the Greek expression see hoi polloi.

Recently due to the re-mixing trend of classic Nepali songs, Tamang Selo tuned songs like changba hoi changba, Man chadey Maichyang lai have been a hit in Nepali radio stations.

Knowledge of these languages served to set apart the speaker from hoi polloi in question, who were not similarly educated.

In his 1983 introduction to Robert Anton Wilson's Prometheus Rising, Israel Regardie writes, " Once I was even so presumptuous as to warn ( Wilson ) in a letter that his humor was much too good to waste on hoi polloi who generally speaking would not understand it and might even resent it.

Either you will succumb to the hoi polloi and the fruit will die on the vine — or you will triumph as individuals.

** Bathysolea polli.

In the first instance, `` mimesis '' is here used to mean the recalling of experience in terms of vivid images rather than in terms of abstract ideas or conventional designations.

A dominant motive is the poet's longing for his homeland and its boyhood associations: `` Not men-folk, but the fields where I would stray, The stones where as a child I used to play ''.

So in these pages the term `` technology '' is used to include any and all means which could amplify, project, or augment man's control over himself and over other men.

But what a super-Herculean task it is to winnow anything of value from the mud-beplastered arguments used so freely, particularly since such common use is made of cliches and stereotypes, in themselves declarations of intellectual bankruptcy.

This text from Dr. Huxley is sometimes used by enthusiasts to indicate that they have the permission of the scientists to press the case for a wonderful unfoldment of psychic powers in human beings.

The men who speculate on these institutions have, for the most part, come to at least one common conclusion: that many of the great enterprises and associations around which our democracy is formed are in themselves autocratic in nature, and possessed of power which can be used to frustrate the citizen who is trying to assert his individuality in the modern world ''.

Properly used, the present book is an excellent instrument of enlightenment.

This prospect did not please Mrs. King any more than did the possibility that her daughter might marry a Bohemian, but she used it to suggest to Thompson that, `` It is not in her nature to love you ''.

On the other hand, the consensus of opinion is that, used with caution and in conjunction with other types of evidence, the native sources still provide a valid rough outline for the English settlement of southern Britain.

The trouble with this machinery is that it is not used and the reason that it is not used is the absence of a conscious sense of community among the free nations.

In addition to his experiments in reading poetry to jazz, Patchen is beginning to use the figure of the modern jazz musician as a myth hero in the same way he used the figure of the private detective a decade ago.

When different colors are used, she is just as likely to color trees purple, hair green, etc..

Berlin is merely being used by Moscow as a stalking horse.

The collection of information is meaningless unless it is understood and used for a definite purpose.

This is used as a reference for comparing the ohmic heating and the electrical energy obtained from the measured current through the element and the measured voltage across the element.