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sidewalk superintendent

noun

Informal.
  1. a bystander who watches the building, demolition, repair, or other work being done at a construction site.


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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of sidewalk superintendent1

First recorded in 1945–50
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When you’re caring for a baby or toddler in a public place, you will inevitably encounter the kind of person I call a sidewalk superintendent.

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Biding its time across from the , its annoyance at anonymity grows with the gawking of every new sidewalk superintendent.

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He has signed up for enough lectures to keep him running around the world at something like $1,000 a talking minute and has been certified as a top-drawer sidewalk superintendent for his presidential library, now a huge hole in the ground.

NASA's verdict on the extraterrestrial crane would have delighted any orbiting sidewalk superintendent: the six-jointed 50-ft.-long arm was extended, bent and manipulated with barely a hitch.

Citation: "Sidewalk superintendent of our times, voice of our conscience, literate exponent of the belief that humor ought to speak the truth."

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