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common touch

idiom

The personal quality of showing understanding of and sympathy for the concerns of ordinary people; rapport with and acceptance by ordinary people, usually in a celebrity or leader.


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Related idioms8entries
  1. 01

    common ground

    A characteristic or interest shared by multiple people or systems; any belief, etc. held in common.

  2. 02

    common or garden variety

    An ordinary, standard kind.

  3. 03

    common purse

    A shared or community fund.

  4. 04

    common run

    Ordinary persons, things, or events.

  5. 05

    golden touch

    Synonym of Midas touch (“the ability to achieve financial reward (or, more generally, success) easily and consistently”).

  6. 06

    human touch

    The ability of a person to deal with others in a personable and empathetic way.

  7. 07

    kick into touch

    To evade an issue; to stop from happening.

  8. 08

    lose one's touch

    To lose one's special mastery of or knack for a particular skill or activity.

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