common-or-garden

common-or-garden adjective: ordinary, standard.

Adjective

common-or-garden (not comparable)

(Ireland, UK) ordinary, standard.
- It's just a common-or-garden fridge but it works fine.
- It is to do away entirely with both the magicians and their magic and run our civilization according to practical and comprehensible rules, dedicated to non-legal justice, to common-or-garden fairness that the ordinary man can understand, in the regulation of human affairs.1939, Fred Rodell, Woe to You Lawyers, Form #11.402, page 74
Synonyms:

customary, mundane, typical, average, medial, basic, bog-standard, common, commonplace, common-and-garden

Examples of common-or-garden in a sentence

Comparing Quantum Mechanics to Common-or-Garden Mechanics.2010, Martin Cohen, Philosophy For Dummies, →ISBN, page 354:
For what was objective existence in the long run but a series of common-or-garden situations?2012, Wilson Harris, Black Marsden, →ISBN:

Synonyms of common-or-garden

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Forms of common-or-garden

alternative form	common or garden

Origin of common-or-garden

An extension of the practice of naming domestic – and therefore non-exotic – plants as common or garden, such as common lavender/garden lavender (Lavandula angustifolia).

Questions about common-or-garden

What does common-or-garden mean?: Common-or-garden means ordinary, standard.
How do you use common-or-garden in a sentence?: Comparing Quantum Mechanics to Common-or-Garden Mechanics.
What part of speech is common-or-garden?: Common-or-garden is an adjective.

Words near common-or-garden in the dictionary

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