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common run

idiom

Ordinary persons, things, or events.


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Related idioms8entries
  1. 01

    break into a run

    To start running.

  2. 02

    common ground

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

  3. 03

    common or garden variety

    An ordinary, standard kind.

  4. 04

    common purse

    A shared or community fund.

  5. 05

    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.

  6. 06

    dry run

    A practice or rehearsal; especially, one that goes through all the motions of a physical process but without the raw material or workpiece present.

  7. 07

    dummy run

    A trial or practice before the real attempt.

  8. 08

    good run

    Success over an extended period.

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