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Idiom: blue-collar worker

February 07th, 2010 | Category: English Idioms, Work

A blue-collar worker is someone who does manual work: work that usually requires them to wear work clothes or protective clothing such as overalls.

Example of use:
According to the Guardian newspaper, skilled and unskilled blue-collar workers have been hit much harder by the recession than white-collar workers.

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  1. Idiom: white-collar worker | online-english-lessons.eu February 7th, 2010 4:16 pm

    [...] also, blue-collar workers Example of use: According to China Daily, a new report on the health of Chinese white collar [...]

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