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common or garden variety

idiom
Meaning

An ordinary, standard kind.


Examples
SIMPLE

This is just a common or garden variety cold.

CONTEXTUAL

Do not expect anything special, as this is just a common or garden variety office chair.

COMPLEX

The detective realized the crime was not a complex conspiracy, but rather a common or garden variety theft.

Anchors to
Related idioms8entries
  1. 01

    common ground

    A characteristic or interest shared by multiple people or systems; any belief, etc. held in common.

  2. 02

    common purse

    A shared or community fund.

  3. 03

    common run

    Ordinary persons, things, or events.

  4. 04

    common touch

    The personal quality of showing understanding of and sympathy for the concerns of ordinary people; rapport with and acceptance by ordinary people, usually in a celebrity or leader.

  5. 05

    everything in the garden is rosy

    Things are going well; everything is fine.

  6. 06

    garden variety

    Ordinary, common, or unexceptional.

  7. 07

    lady garden

    A woman's pubic hair, and the area around it.

  8. 08

    lead someone up the garden path

    To deceive, hoodwink, mislead, or seduce someone.

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