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run-of-the-mill
[ ruhn-uhv-thuh-mil ]
adjective
- merely average; commonplace; mediocre:
just a plain, run-of-the-mill house; a run-of-the-mill performance.
Synonyms: , ,
run-of-the-mill
adjective
- ordinary, average, or undistinguished in quality, character, or nature; not special or excellent
run of the mill
- Common, ordinary, average: 鈥淗is performance in the game was neither exemplary nor disastrous; it was simply run of the mill.鈥
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of run-of-the-mill1
Idioms and Phrases
Ordinary, average, as in There's nothing special about these singers鈥攖hey're just run of the mill . This expression alludes to fabrics coming directly from a mill without having been sorted or inspected for quality. It has survived such similar phrases as run of the mine and run of the kiln , for the products of mines and kilns. [Late 1800s]Example Sentences
He said filming for Gavin and Stacey originally began as we was entering his 60s and "was just beginning to calm down and become a bit more of a regular, run-of-the-mill human being".
Their choice of peppers isn鈥檛 your run-of-the-mill jalape帽os or habaneros.
鈥淭he message from Adam鈥檚 case is that if you鈥檙e going to indict some run-of-the-mill CEO of a company, you need to check if he鈥檚 a Trump supporter first,鈥 the former prosecutor said.
A movie on this story needed to embrace unconventional moves and not feel like just another run-of-the-mill documentary.
All to watch a mundane, routine, run-of-the-mill workout.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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