pavement people

pavement people
   homeless beggars
   The place where they beg and sometimes also sleep:
    Jenny Hoyle, the Taunton Town Centre Manager, has not been heard to utter nasty words like 'vagrant' — she prefers the sublime phrase 'pavement people'. (Chapman, 1999)

How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms. . 2014.

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