| Word | the common touch |
|---|---|
| Description | the ability to get on with or appeal to ordinary people An obsolete sense of common (which comes from Latin communis meaning affable) may have influenced this phrase, as may a Shakespearean phrase used in his play about the great exponent of the common touch, King Henry V, on the eve of the battle of Agincourt : a little touch of Harry in the night. 1910 - Rudyard Kipling - If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch. the ability to get on with or appeal to ordinary people An obsolete sense of common (which comes from Latin communis meaning affable) may have influenced this phrase, as may a Shakespearean phrase used in his play about the great exponent of the common touch, King Henry |
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