commonplace

kulunut sanonta

jokapäiväinen, tavallinen

arkipäiväinen

mielenkiinnoton ordinary Ordinary; having no remarkable characteristics.
1824, Sir (w), (w), ch. 7:

"This Mr. Tyrrel," she said, in a tone of authoritative decision, "seems after all a very ordinary sort of person, quite a commonplace man."

I could get hold of nothing but of some commonplace phrases, those futile phrases that give the measure of our impotence before each other's trials.

Finally he began to mutter some commonplaces which meant nothing particularly.

And something angered Tamara in the way the Prince assisted in all this, out-commonplacing her friend in commonplaces with the suavest politeness.

"My dear fellow," said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, "life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere commonplaces of existence."

Whatever, in my reading, occurs concerning this our fellow creature, I do never fail to set it down by way of commonplace.

I do not apprehend any difficulty in collecting and commonplacing an universal history from the historians.

And something angered Tamara in the way the Prince assisted in all this, out-commonplacing her friend in commonplaces with the suavest politeness.

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