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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
man Friday

▶noun a male helper or follower.

– origin from Friday, the name of a character in Defoe's novel Robinson Crusoe (1719), whom Crusoe often refers to as ‘my man Friday’.

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