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English
Pronunciation
Noun
walk of life (plural walks of life)
- (idiomatic) An occupation, role, social class, or lifestyle.
Folks in our neighborhood come from every walk of life, prince and pauper, investor and janitor.
1962 February, “Talking of Trains: Signalmen's rewards”, in Modern Railways, page 82:Nor is it good for the name of the railway industry that skilled men should have to put in so much overtime to keep up financially with the Joneses in other walks of life.
Usage notes
- Usually used in plural form, especially in the set phrase all walks of life.
Translations
occupation, role, class, or lifestyle
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: ("all kinds of people") 各界人士 (zh) (gèjiè rénshì), ("all professions") 各行各業 / 各行各业 (zh) (gèhánggèyè), ("all social statuses") 各個階層 / 各个阶层 (gègè jiēcéng)
- Finnish: ammatti (fi) (occupation), elämänala (field of life), elämäntapa (fi) (lifestyle)
- French: milieu (fr) m, horizon (fr) m
- Italian: estrazione sociale f
- Korean: 신분 (ko) (sinbun) (status), 직업 (ko) (jigeop) (occupation), 사회적 계급 (sahoejeok gyegeup) ("social classes")
- Occitan: mitan (oc) m, condicion (oc) f, ambient (oc) m
- Polish: ścieżka życia f
- Russian: заня́тие (ru) n (zanjátije) (occupation), о́браз жи́зни (ru) m (óbraz žízni) (lifestyle)
- Serbo-Croatian: sfera života f
- Spanish: clase social (es) f, condición social f
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