sidewalk superintendent
Jobsite audience member
A sidewalk superintendent is someone who stops to watch construction or demolition work from the street, often offering unsolicited opinions about how the job should be done.
The term is gently mocking—these self-appointed experts have no involvement in the project: A crowd of sidewalk superintendents gathered to watch the crane lift the beam.
- construction siteWhere edifices get erected
- work zoneDesignated repair site
- bystanderOne who observes nearby
- kibitzerOne who meddles uninvited
- observerOne who perceives events
backseat driver · back seat driver · Monday morning quarterback · onlooker · gawker · passerby · street corner · construction · busybody · nosy neighbor · building · wisecracker · complainant · spectator · peanut gallery · rubbernecker · meddler · layperson
sidewalk superintendentforeman
Worker who directs others
construction foreman · site supervisor · site foreman · project manager · general contractor
sidewalk superintendentconstruction worker
One who erects structures
laborer · tradesman · builder · hard hat · journeyman
siding, sideway, sideways, sideward, sidewards, walked, walking, walker, walkers