From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishas the next man/personas the next man/personas any other man or person I am as keen to do well as the next man. → next
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as the next man/person• After a while, everybody will have the technology to make a movie look as cool as the next person.• All you need to know about Flaubert to know as much as the next person!• She figured the guys could see for themselves then that he could be as vulnerable as the next man.• Now Glover himself was as female as the next man, keeping an eagle eye on boys. 