He is a layman in politics.
Where the law is concerned, I am only a layman.
A layman might not be able to tell the difference.
The layman in town lamented the location of the landfill outside their town!
That is the layman 's point of view, said Sir Henry dryly.
Instead it now creates elegant nebulae, fascinating to professionals but hard for the layman to pick out unaided.
As far as the layman is concerned, the practical results of all this expenditure of money and effort are negligible.
The idea of treating maladies of the mind by blasting the brain with noise sounds, to the layman, like kicking a television set in order to repair it.
It's an entirely new framework for understanding the illness, one that isn't easy to grok if you're a layman (as he was when he started).
Taking their cue from psychology, these economists take seriously what every layman knows: that people don't always behave in selfish or even rational ways.
Recognition of the importance of Dr. Hawkin's research may be difficult or impossible for a layman, but it is sure to have a lasting impact on our lives.
Yet here was the natural order upset, rich and poor, layman and clergy (monks especially) indiscriminately swept away by the wrath of God.
