run-of-the-mill

comparative more run-of-the-mill · superlative most run-of-the-mill · alternative run of the mill · alternative run-o'-the-mill

1. figurativelyOrdinary; not special.

   This isn’t your run-of-the-mill refrigerator; you’ll find the extra features well worth the price.

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   The other had the most run-of-the-mill news which make some of my recent run-of-the-mill columns appear like the raciest escapist fare.

   1971 November 30, Martin Lapidus, “Class Notes: 62”, in Princeton Alumni Weekly, volume 72, page 26

   For a deeper, less familiar philosophy, you have to listen to your more run-of-the-mill dossers, and they don't come more run-of-the-mill than Ratso.

   1989, Punch, page 55

   In one side of the prestigious commissions, public and private, sacred and profane, which could make the name of an artist, there was a more run of the mill style of painting which already enjoyed a vast clientéle at all levels of society.

   1995, Alain Mérot, French Painting in the Seventeenth Century, page 42

   Who the more run-of-the-mill victims were is unclear, since they are often not named or have no emblem glyphs attached to them.

   1999, David Drew, The Lost Chronicles of the Maya Kings, page 284

   Or even more run-of-the-mill murders which usually turn out to be family or business affairs and where someone's usually heard something or, in the case of the more professional killings, someone wants to do a deal.

   2001, Gabrielle Lord, Death Delights, published 2002, unnumbered page

   Synonyms: common-or-garden, typical, average, medial, basic, bog-standard, common, commonplace · Antonyms: cream of the crop, deluxe, luxe