Sentences with phrase «average punter»

The phrase "average punter" refers to an ordinary or typical person. It is often used to describe someone who is average in terms of their abilities, skills, or knowledge in a particular area. Full definition
The average punter is naturally prone to big - up their own team and denigrate the opposition — you just have an inclination to do the reverse.
He is a below - average punter (10th in the standings last year, with a 42.3 - yard average), an average place - kicker.
We reckon the average punter has seen about 28 of the films on our 100 best sci - fi movies list.
As such, models like this new BMW X3 M40i are becoming seemingly more attractive to the average punter.
Braking and natural traction are both more capable than you might think, given the combination of 1842 kg (tare weight) and 430kW / 740Nm, and the stability control systems (particularly in the third «Performance» mode, when torque vectoring comes on - stream) further flatter the average punter.
I recall when a lot of these funds were born, the average punter was terrified of investing in Russia, and the fund marketing bods clearly thought that throwing Eastern Europe (and Turkey..?!)
The king is dead, long live the king... INM will very likely prove worthless for the average punter who's even now thinking «God, it's only 4 cts now — I mean, how much could you lose...?!»
The media won't do it because it takes the average punter a week to forget something and anything more than two days old is never news.
Without any prior knowledge, it's easy to see how the average punter might be easily fooled by the line - up of books cosying - up in Dymocks and elsewhere.
Rightly or wrongly, peer review will bring this news to the average punter who otherwise would not seek it.
The average punter still looks at the upfront sticker price and doesn't always look at the possible pay back period.
I've been commenting here and elsewhere frenetically for the past few months, in an attempt to show that the average punter / voter can express a sensible opinion on a subject on which he has no expert knowledge, given a bit of curiosity, some attention to detail, and a dose of Socratic bloody - mindedness.
Mirko Magaric over at Deakin Uni was using similar arguments which were expressed in a way the average punter finds more easy to understand here.
The average punter, lobbyists, astroturfers, biased media, politicians of questionable sense did and can latch onto the selective use of the data to cast doubt about the physics behind the rational of AGW.
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