Main Street

The street name sense is by proprialization from main street. The everyday-people sense is by metonymy.

• "Near-synonyms: High Street (UK); precariat, proletariat, working class, middle class"
• "Thanks to a $700 billion TARP bailout and hundreds of billions of dollars in nearly free of charge loans by the Federal Reserve (a policy Soros himself told me was a "hidden gift" to the banks), Wall Street has surged back to pre-crisis levels of compensation even as Main Street continues to struggle."

• common man
• everyman
• High Street
• ;
• precariat
• proletariat
• working class
• middle class