He won't give the time of day to someone like you or me.

With the notion of human-rightism, Pellet (2000) tried to warn of the costs and dangers of the slippery slope of activism within the arena of international human rights law. ‘Human-rightism’ was immediately ascribed pejorative meanings and used to express different forms of critique when it came to human rights.

to tump teasel

“Have fire in this garret before night or—” / He stopped because he could not go on. It was an aposiopesis of the purest kind.