Usage of "rank and file"

The ordinary members of an organization (such as the enlisted soldiers of an army)

Uso de rank and file en inglés

By their number of Twitter followers shall ye rank and file them. 
 The Irish Times 

The trusted lieutenants held the rank and file in readiness for action. 
 The Life of Abraham Lincoln 

And the rank and file-farmers and labourers-seemed fired by the same enthusiasm. 
 Is Ulster Right? 

For in the rank and file an empty stomach is not hopeful. 
 Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill 

The rank and file, at least, now believed firmly in the prophet. 
 New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 2, ... 

You're not making any friends amongst the rank and file, you know. 
 Moon Over Soho 

At their heels tramped the rank and file of the great movement. 
 In Kedar's Tents 

This speculation was confined to the rank and file of the outfit. 
 The Triumph of John Kars: A Story of the Yukon 

The real support of the rank and file went to Ana DeLeon. 
 Mission road 

But the rank and file will have to constitute the big end. 
 A Poor Wise Man 

The Platoon Sergeants salute, and issue commands to the rank and file. 
 The First Hundred Thousand: Being the Unofficial Chronicle of a ... 

This is only keeping them in rank and file, it is true. 
 A Vindication of the Rights of Woman / With Strictures on Politi... 

Here and there a comparatively new uniform brightened the rank and file. 
 The Grey Cloak 

There must always be a reference back to the rank and file. 
 Calumet "K" 

They included over sixty officers and about four hundred rank and file. 
 Six days of the Irish Republic / A Narrative and Critical Accoun... 

The rank and file, amounting to about eight thousand men, are natives. 
 In the Eastern Seas 

Significados de rank and file en inglés