mere mortals
Just regular folks
Mere mortals refers to ordinary humans, emphasizing their limitations compared to gods, superheroes, or exceptional individuals.
The phrase often appears with gentle irony: Such technology is beyond the reach of mere mortals, While geniuses grasp it instantly, mere mortals need time to understand.
It acknowledges human frailty or ordinariness, sometimes self-deprecatingly.
- ordinarinessState of being unremarkable
- everyday peopleAverage, unremarkable citizens
- humanityPeople as a whole
- flesh and bloodOne's close relatives
- dust to dustBurial phrase acknowledging decomposition
finitude · individual · person · common folk · beings · peers · frailty · creatures · transience · commonality · mundanity · fallibility · commoner · vulnerability · larger than life · hubris · impermanence · brevity
mere mortalsgods
Supernatural beings worshipped
deities · immortals · God · divinities · celestial beings
mere mortalsthe elite
Most powerful group
the powers that be · VIPs · movers and shakers · overlords · moguls
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