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单词 common or garden
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common or garden

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P1. to have (something) common: to share (a quality, characteristic, etc.) (with someone or something). Cf. to have (something) in common at common n.1 Phrases 1a(c).Often with quantifier or equivalent noun phrase as the object of have.
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a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 183 (MED) Men haþ somwhat comyn wiþ þynges þat beeþ parties of þe grete world..man haþ beynge wiþ stones..felynges wiþ bestes.
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iii. f. 144 Goates haue many thinges common with Sheepe.
1605 Bp. J. Hall Medit. & Vowes II. §82 He hath the eye of reason common with the best.
1700 H. Layton Search after Souls 66 Either it [sc. the Soul] hath something common with the Body, or not.
1874 W. Small tr. F. de Coulanges Anc. City iii. ii. 161 The worship of the gods of Olympus and that of heroes and manes never had anything common between them.
1960 Art Jrnl. 20 58/1 The apse sculpture of San Quince is..contemporary with the first sculptures in Silos but has nothing common with it [sic] in style.
2020 @RogerSwartz8 21 Dec. in twitter.com (accessed 28 Jan. 2021) Oh my you have something common with my grandma!
P2. common or garden.
a. Designating a plant of the most familiar or frequently occurring kind, esp. one that is cultivated. Cf. sense A. 12a.
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1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball v. lxxi. 636 There be three sortes of Garlike, that is the common or garden Garlike [Fr. le Domestique], wilde Garlike, and Ramsons.
1657 W. Coles Adam in Eden xxix. 59 But the Common or Garden Nightshade is not dangerous.
1733 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. (ed. 2) at Anethum Common or Garden Dill.
1802 A. F. M. Willich Domest. Encycl. III. 467/1 The..Common, or Garden Radish, is an exotic species, originally from China, and which is cultivated for the table.
1976 S. M. Gault Dict. Shrubs in Colour 196/2 Common or garden sage..this sub-evergreen aromatic shrub is valuable for ground cover purposes and for its grey appearance which can be used effectively in garden schemes.
2017 Irish Independent (Nexis) 11 Nov. Straightforward common-or-garden cabbage is supernutritious and every bit as good as kale.
b. colloquial (chiefly British). Designating something ordinary or usual for its type.
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1866 Dover Express & E. Kent Intelligencer 9 Nov. 4/6 The principal portion of her food has been the common or garden snails, which her owner has always given her.
1897 Westm. Gaz. 4 Aug. 8/2 I have—to make use of a common or garden expression—been ‘rushed’ in this matter.
1934 W. Lewis Men without Art i. iii. 94 Mr. Eliot is precluded..from pointing out the common or garden foolishness of this salvation by poetry.
2010 Guardian 25 Sept. (Weekend Suppl.) 96/1 Pizzoccheri isn't your common or garden pasta. It's made with buckwheat.
P3. than (or as) common: than (or as) is common; than (or as) usual. Now rare (chiefly U.S. regional in later use).
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a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) i. iii. 114 Because that I am more then common tall. View more context for this quotation
1684 P. Ker Flosculum Poeticum 59 The year is more than common kinde to him, who puls ripe Grapes, before the vintage come.
1798 Weekly Mag. 17 Feb. 73/1 The liquors, were better preserved and cooler than common.
1803 E. Drinker Diary 25 Oct. (1991) III. 1699 I..have been busy as common, sewing and reading.
1883 A. E. Sweet & J. A. Knox On Mexican Mustang (1884) 44 He had sort o' aggravated me more than common that morning.
1915 Amer. Bee Jrnl. Oct. 337/1 In the partridge pea belt the yield..is as good as common, if not a little better.
c1960 Wilson Coll. in Dict. Amer. Regional Eng. (1985) I. at Common I'm as well as common.
P4. Proverb. common fame is seldom to blame: widespread or general rumour is rarely completely unfounded. Cf. common fame n.
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1639 J. Clarke Paroemiologia 227 Common fame's seldome to blame.
1737 Ray's Compl. Coll. Eng. Prov. (ed. 3) 105 Common fame's seldom to blame.
1936 R. A. J. Walling Corpse in Crimson Slippers i. 15 But though, as the proverb says, common fame is seldom to blame, don't believe everything you hear about me.
2017 News Internat. (Pakistan) (Nexis) 3 July Gossiping and lying go together. They are inseparable. Common fame is seldom to blame.
P5. colloquial. (as) common as dirt (also muck).In the form (as) common as muck chiefly British, Australian, and New Zealand.
a. Occurring or found often; prevalent or widespread. In later use also as modifier (usually in forms common-as-dirt, common-as-muck).
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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > [adjective] > general or prevalent
commona1325
generala1393
usual1396
popular?a1425
riveda1513
vulgarc1550
current1563
afloat1571
widespread1582
penny-rife1606
catholic1607
spacious1610
epidemical1614
epidemial1616
epidemic1617
prevailent1623
regnant1623
fashionablea1627
wide-spreading1655
endemical1658
prevalent1658
endemiala1682
obtaining1682
prevailing1682
endemious1684
sterling1696
running1697
(as) common as dirt (also muck)1737
prevailant1794
exoteric1814
endemic1852
widish1864
prolate1882
going1909
1737 Weekly Ess. 12 Nov. in Ess. Var. Subj. (1738) 19 Were once such a secret divulged, gold and silver would grow as common as dirt.
1892 R. L. Stevenson & L. Osbourne Wrecker xiii. 216 I don't say the type's not common in these waters; it's as common as dirt; the traders carry them for surf-boats.
1990 Railroad Model Craftsman July 100/3 Like clockwork, it would arrive around 1:00 p.m. behind a pair of Jenks blue geeps dragging those common-as-dirt 40-foot boxcars.
2008 Independent 6 Aug. 17/1 The most important piece had a Latin inscription. That's as common as muck in the Mediterranean, but extremely rare in Scotland.
b. depreciative. Of a low social status; coarse, vulgar. In later use also as modifier (usually in forms common-as-dirt, common-as-muck).
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society > society and the community > social class > the common people > socially inferior person > [adjective]
low-bred1599
dunghilled1600
ungenteel1633
underbred1650
half-bred1694
ingenteel1694
ungentlemanlike1719
lowlife1728
under-degreed1748
lower class1812
downstairs1819
low-class1836
wrong1859
(as) common as dirt (also muck)1877
plebbish1928
downscale1930
non-U1954
1877 ‘A. sketchley’ Marriage of Conscience ii, in Notts. Guardian 9 Mar. Suppl. 3/2 As to him, he's as common as dirt, though I will say, free with the money.
1953 H. Clevely Public Enemy iii. 14 ‘She's coarse,’ Christine continued. ‘Flashy and vulgar. Common as dirt.’
1995 Daily Record (Glasgow) (Nexis) 14 Aug. 9 She's the common-as-muck daughter of a somewhat seedy father.
2015 M. Portas Shop Girl 74 Mary and Cecil..were as common as muck as far as Mum was concerned.
P6. to make common cause (with): see cause n. 11b. by common consent: see consent n. 2b.
extracted from commonadj.adv.
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