blue collar worker

blue collar worker
{n. phr.} A manual laborer who is probably a labor union member. * /Because Jack's father is a blue collar worker, Jack was so anxious to become an intellectual./ Contrast: WHITE COLLAR WORKER.

Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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