RUN-OF-THE-MILL


Meaning of RUN-OF-THE-MILL in English

adjective

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Detective Harris could see this was not going to be a run-of-the-mill case.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

A design on this sort of scale would be worth ten times the run-of-the-mill jobs she had completed just recently.

And that's for run-of-the-mill managers.

Nothing very average or run-of-the-mill or mediocre about that, now is there?

Ordinary run-of-the-mill players are built up into footballing geniuses.

Products such as highly-priced porcelain will be subject to far higher quality controls than run-of-the-mill household earthenware.

Science popularisers often make the same claim, dismissing the Sun as just a run-of-the-mill star.

The company is out telling run-of-the-mill customers not to expect any real deliveries until at least October.

There is still scope therefore for the artist, but no longer for the run-of-the-mill artist, in scientific illustration.

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