common clay

noun

The ordinary, run-of-the-mill people.

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Meanings

nouncommon clay (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe ordinary, run-of-the-mill people.

    "It is the privilege of the original thinker to put forward ideas which are new and usually unwelcome to the common clay."

    1929, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, When the World Screamed
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APA

common clay. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/common%20clay

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“common clay.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/common%20clay. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

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