common run

English

Noun

common run

1. (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.

   • 1844, John Wilson, Essay on the Genius, and Character of Burns:

     Burns 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.

   • 1809, Diedrich Knickerbocker [pseudonym; Washington Irving], A History of New York, from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), New York, N.Y.: Inskeep & Bradford, […], →OCLC:

     His whole appearance was something out of the common run.

References

• “run”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.