common run
English
Noun
- (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 the common run of parks.
- 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 the common run.
- 1840, John Wilson, “On the Genius and Character of Burns”, in The Land of Burns, a Series of Landscapes and Portraits, Illustrative of the Life and Writings of the Scottish Poet. […], volume II, Glasgow; Edinburgh: Blackie & Son, […], →OCLC, page xxxviii:
- That Burns, whose sympathies were keen and wide, and who 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, should have shunned or been shy of such society, would have been something altogether unnatural and incredible; […]
References
- “run”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.