Main Street
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- noun
- /meɪn striːt/
- Literature
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gente de pueblo
- His eloquent oratory and promises for change that he made to all those on Main Street were music to their ears.
In order to save Main Street, I had to save Wall Street.
- In order to save Main Street, I had to save Wall Street.
- Wall Street wants what Main Street has, and every system is designed that way.
- I don't think most people on Wall Street or Main Street are really aware that there's this big like Romo taxi event coming.
- It's literally takes money out of the working class or Main Street and invests it for you.
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And the question is how can Main Street seem so down and people's mood seem so down, but the stock market's so high.
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Many small-town residents feel that their values represent Main Street rather than the elite interests of Wall Street.
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In order to save Main Street, I had to save Wall Street.
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Wall Street wants what Main Street has, and every system is designed that way.
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Neither party cares about the people on Main Street.
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Increasing revenue would help ease the impact of budget cuts on people on Main Street, and ultimately speed up our recovery.
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So far, bankers seem to be getting too much and Main Street too little.
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The big issue was that Main Street was very exposed to investment banks even if they didn't know it.
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Too much capital goes to Wall Street speculators and not enough to Main Street entrepreneurs.
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Rightly or wrongly, most Americans believe that these efforts have helped Wall Street more than Main Street.
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Synonyms
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1.0
People who live or work on the same street
Surface Forms
Morphology
The literal composition 'main' + 'street' (the principal road) is transparent, so learners will grasp the concrete meaning easily. However, the MWE’s extended metonymic sense referring to the typical people/character of small‑town America is culturally specific and not fully predictable from the parts, though similar constructions exist in many languages, so it is only partially transparent to a B1 learner.
Etymology
Main Street came to mean the life and people of small towns because the town's main street was where neighbors met, shopped, and talked. So it is used to mean 'small-town America' or 'ordinary people' today.