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单词 nearly man
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nearly man

English

Noun

nearly man (plural nearly men)

  1. A man who fails to achieve the success or status that he might potentially have had.
    • 2000, David Brian Plummer, Lepus: The Story of a Hare (page 42)
      It was Harris's lot to be a nearly man: a man nearly educated, nearly employed, nearly criminal, but never really toppling the edges to be labelled. He had been nearly married, and lived at this time with a woman who had also seen better days []
    • Clive Gilson, ‎Lorna Howarth, Songs of Bliss
      Snuggle's is housed in what was once a mid-sixties estate pub, the perfect place to wind down a life as a nearly man. Suburban mediocrity writ large.
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