common-or-garden

See also: common or garden

English

Alternative forms

• common or garden

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).

Adjective

common-or-garden (not comparable)

1. (chiefly British, Ireland) ordinary, standard.

   It's just a common-or-garden fridge but it works fine.

   • 1939, Fred Rodell, Woe to You Lawyers, Form #11.402, page 74:

     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.

   • 2010, Martin Cohen, Philosophy For Dummies, →ISBN, page 354:

     Comparing Quantum Mechanics to Common-or-Garden Mechanics.

   • 2012, Wilson Harris, Black Marsden, →ISBN:

     For what was objective existence in the long run but a series of common-or-garden situations?

See also

• Thesaurus:common
• garden variety