common run

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Meaning: (idiomatic,dated)Ordinary persons, things, or events.September 4, 1760,Horace Walpole,letter to the Earl of Strafford:I saw nothing else that is superior to thecommon runof parks.1844,John Wilson,Essay on the Genius, and Character of Burns:Burns never dreamed of looking down on others as beneath him, merely because he was conscious of his own vast superiority to thecommon runof men.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:His whole appearance was something out of thecommon run.

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