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common run en · NOUN
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(dated, idiomatic) Ordinary persons, things, or events.
His whole appearance was something out of the common run.
1809, Diedrich Knickerbocker [pseudonym; Washington Irving], A History of New York, from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), New York, N.Y.: Inskeep & Bradford, […], →OCLC:Burns never dreamed of looking down on others as beneath him, merely because he was conscious of his own vast superiority to the common run of men.
1844, John Wilson, Essay on the Genius, and Character of Burns:I saw nothing else that is superior to the common run of parks.
September 4, 1760, Horace Walpole, letter to the Earl of Strafford: