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common touches

common touches is the plural of common touch.

Meaning of common touch

Noun

common touch (plural common touches)

  1. (idiomatic) The personal quality of showing understanding of and sympathy for the concerns of ordinary people; rapport with and acceptance by ordinary people, usually in a celebrity or leader.
    • If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
      Or walk with kings—nor lose the common touch;
      . . .
      Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it1895, Rudyard Kipling, If—

Questions about common touches

What is common touches the plural of?
Common touches is the plural of common touch.

Words near common touches in the dictionary

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  4. common torpedoes
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