Wiktionary
alt. 1 (context idiomatic singular only English) The oppressive powers that be, including the government and corporations; the system, as coordinated outside of one’s control. 2 (context idiomatic singular only English) An oppressive or domineering person of authority, usually male. 3 (context idiomatic singular only English) The best man for a job. n. 1 (context idiomatic singular only English) The oppressive powers that be, including the government and corporations; the system, as coordinated outside of one’s control. 2 (context idiomatic singular only English) An oppressive or domineering person of authority, usually male. 3 (context idiomatic singular only English) The best man for a job.
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"The Man" is a slang phrase that may refer to the government or to some other authority in a position of power. In addition to this derogatory connotation, it may also serve as a term of respect and praise.
The phrase "the Man is keeping me down" is commonly used to describe oppression. The phrase "stick it to the Man" encourages resistance to authority, and essentially means "fight back" or "resist", either passively, openly or via sabotage.
The Man is a 2005 American comedy crime film starring Eugene Levy, Samuel L. Jackson, and Miguel Ferrer.
The Man is directed by Les Mayfield and produced by Rob Fried from a screenplay by Jim Piddock, Margaret Oberman and Stephen Carpenter, based on the story by Jim Piddock and Margaret Oberman. New Line Cinema released The Man in Canada (through Alliance Atlantis) and the United States on September 9, 2005.
Filming took place in Toronto, Hamilton and Oakville, Ontario, Canada.
The Man is a 1972 political drama directed by Joseph Sargent and starring James Earl Jones. Jones plays Douglass Dilman, the President pro tempore of the United States Senate, who succeeds to the presidency through a series of unforeseeable events, thereby becoming both the first African American president and the first wholly unelected one. The screenplay, written by Rod Serling, is largely based upon The Man, a novel by Irving Wallace.
In addition to being the first black president more than thirty-six years before the real-world occurrence, the fictional Dilman was also the first president elected to neither that office nor to the Vice Presidency, foreshadowing the real-world elevation of Gerald Ford by less than twenty-five months.
In an interview with Greg Braxton of the Los Angeles Times that ran January 16, 2009, four days before Barack Obama was inaugurated as president, Jones was asked about having portrayed the fictional first black U.S. president on film. He replied: "I have misgivings about that one. It was done as a TV special. Had we known it was to be released as a motion picture, we would have asked for more time and more production money. I regret that."
The Man is a slang phrase, used to refer to a generalized idea of authority.
The Man may also refer to:
The Man is a 1964 novel by Irving Wallace that speculatively explores the socio-political consequences in U.S. society when a Black man becomes President of the United States. The novel's title derives from the contemporary — fifties, sixties, seventies — American slang English, " The Man".
The Man is an album recorded and released by Scottish musician and music industry figure Bill Drummond in 1986.
The Man is the fifth album by alternative rock band Sponge. Vocalist Vinnie Dombroski is the only original band member left on this recording. Former Sponge producer Tim Patalan's brother Andy assumed guitar duties for this album.
The Man is a romance novel by Bram Stoker, the author of Dracula, written in 1905. It has also been published under the title The Gates of Life.
The Man is the self-produced eighth album by soul singer Barry White, released in 1978 on the 20th Century-Fox Records label, which saw its name changed from 20th Century.
'' The Man'' (Человек, Tchelovek) is a poem by Vladimir Mayakovsky written in late-1916 - early-1917 and published in February 1918 by the ASIS Publishers, subtitled The Thing .
The Man is a graphic novella for children, written and illustrated by Raymond Briggs and published by Julia MacRae Books in 1992. The diologue tells the humorous story of a boy, John, who is visited by the titular Man, a minuscule human ( homunculus) who arrives in the boy's bedroom unclothed and hungry. After getting over his initial shock, the boy starts to take care of him. The story follows their relationship over the next few days between John and 'Man', with the Man showing himself to be demanding, bossy and messy, but nevertheless a bond forms between the pair. Their time together involves many funny and peculiar moments, such as an odd obsession with "Frank Cooper's Oxford marmalade", using socks for jumpers, and a near-death collision with a marmalade jar.
Unlike the boy and Snowman in Briggs' famous wordless picture book The Snowman, both characters have full dialogue throughout, with each character's lines formatted differently so that they can be distinguished. Occasionally the dialogue and drawings are interspersed so that speech bubbles surround certain lines of text.
Dutch and Danish-language editions were published in 1993 and the first U.S. edition in 1995. Later there was an audiobook edition, with Michael Palin voicing the Man.
For both writing and illustrating The Man Briggs won the 1992 Kurt Maschler Award, or "the Emil". The award from Maschler Publications and Booktrust annually (1982 to 1999) recognised one British "work of imagination for children, in which text and illustration are integrated so that each enhances and balances the other."
"The Man" is a song by American vocalist Aloe Blacc. First included on his EP Wake Me Up, the song was later released as the second single from his third studio album Lift Your Spirit by Interscope Records. Blacc co-wrote the track with its producers, DJ Khalil, as well as Sam Barsh and Daniel Seeff. Elton John and Bernie Taupin are also credited as co-writers, because the song's chorus is built upon an interpolation of the line " You can tell everybody" from John's 1971 single " Your Song", co-written with Taupin.
The song has become Blacc's most successful single as a solo artist to date; it sold 2.5 million copies in the United States as of December 2014, peaking at number eight on the Billboard Hot 100. Outside the United States, "The Man" topped the charts in the United Kingdom and peaked within the top ten of the charts in Australia, New Zealand, the Republic of Ireland and Sweden. On January 22, 2014, a remix of "The Man" featuring American rapper Kid Ink was released.
"The Man" is a song by English singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran. It features production from frequent collaborator Jake Gosling. The song was released as an "instant grat" digital download to the iTunes Store on 19 June 2014, serving as the sixth of seven promotional singles from his second studio album, x (2014). It entered the UK Singles Chart at number 87.
At his concert in Düsseldorf on 5 November 2014, Sheeran played "The Man" as his pick for the night and said that he had only ever played it live once before, and that it is the one song he wished he had never put on an album, as writing it was therapeutic and thus very personal.
Usage examples of "the man".
But the man's features stood out clear in the light of the candles on the table.
Not only that, but the man he murdered, Harrington, was his wife's father.
He could hear Rizzurt's labored breathing as the man bent low over his instruments.
I turned on the night lamp at the head of my bed, and picked up a volume of Shaw at random (it was Arms and the Man, and I remember thinking grimly that I was a good bit of a chocolate cream soldier myself), and prepared to go to sleep.
If he wouldn't run a hundred miles through fire and water to get away from us, then he is not the man we want.
His room at the Motion Picture Actors' Home was as tidy as the man himself, seated in a deep armchair in loose tan slacks, slippers, and a white shirt buttoned to the neck.
Nearby a young couple sat up in bed, the woman smoking, the man having his makeup touched up by a technician.
I never liked it, and since the strange case of the man in lower ten, I have been a bit squeamish.
The situation between them had not visibly altered: the same dogged determination showed in the man's face, but the young woman - daughter or wife?