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common-or-garden en · ADJ

Etymology

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).

Meanings

1. (Ireland, UK, not-comparable) ordinary, standard.
   • 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:
   • It's just a common-or-garden fridge but it works fine.
   • 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:

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Relateds

common or garden variety · garden variety

Synonyms

expected · common-and-garden · commonplace · mundane · garden variety · basic · workaday · everyday · mundane · conventional · vulgar · plain · medial · usual · customary · improminent · regular · common · run-of-the-mill · consistent · natural · wakeaday · par · customary · quotidian · plain vanilla · ordinary · congruent · normal · par for the course · average · bog-standard · standard issue · routine · typical · unremarkable · unstrange · standard · typical · unexceptional · common-or-garden