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.
- 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. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), New York, N.Y.: Inskeep & Bradford, […], OCLC 426050984:
  His whole appearance was something out of the common run.

References

run in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

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