common or garden
Plain and typical
Common or garden means ordinary, unremarkable, or of the most typical variety.
The phrase is British, often hyphenated when used as an adjective: a common-or-garden cold, your common-or-garden office worker.
It suggests something so standard it needs no special description—the default version you'd find anywhere.
- quotidianOccurring every day
- everydayOccurring each day
- usualOccurring most often
- ordinaryStandard, unremarkable
- dime a dozenAbundant and unremarkable
two a penny · ubiquitous · commonplace · frequent · familiar · unremarkable · nothing to write home about · household · general · routine · same old same old · par for the course · wildflower · unexceptional · run-of-the-mill · plain · plain Jane · vanilla
common or gardenextraordinary
Beyond what's typical
exceptional · remarkable · special · outstanding · unique
common, garden, commonly, commonness, commons, commoner, commonest, uncommon, uncommonly