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New Man

noun

  1. the New Man
    a type of modern man who allows the caring side of his nature to show by being supportive and by sharing child care and housework
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Idioms and Phrases

see under feel like oneself .
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Example Sentences

But when his mother remarried, Don never got on with the new man or the new rules.

The Pakistani army changed commanders this weekend, putting a new man in the most important job in the country.

If clean-shaven William is a new man, then his bearded brother Harry is 100% unreconstructed bloke.

Halsted and Coneys said they saw a new man standing on the deck afterwards.

Those three days, Weiner said, were the beginning of a “journey,” and he emerged a “new man.”

Probably his Private Secretary, considering you a new man, will have failed to furnish the necessary information.

In the Parsî religion that fall of man, by a lie, was recovered from by the creation of a new man.

My drop-out would be made to look as if I had jumped the job, and Dunton would appoint a new man.

At once I noticed that a new man had appeared among them—a red-faced, stocky man wearing a frock-coat and a shiny silk hat.

This was not the Robert Hardy he had known all his life; this was a new man.

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