The tired businessman in the audience might respond with "Who cares?"
The production was dismissed by the critics as a "tired businessman's show", but the cast and choreography were much praised.
With its balleticized waltzes, fake folk dances and can-can girls, this is the perfect ballet for, as they used to say, the tired businessman.
Shouldn't there be something in today's subway car for the tired businessman and businesswoman?
"Art should be a soft armchair for the tired businessman," Mr. Hyde said.
Jogging and step aerobics notwithstanding, it is likely that there are still tired businessmen in the world.
It is hard not to identify with that old lecher who's been watching her, frozen, through a haze of red light, looking like the ultimate tired businessman.
The proverbial tired businessman is more likely to get a nap than titillation out of the show.
This desperately tired businessman proved a loser in the rat race of life.