Meaning

(figurative) Ordinary; not special..

Example Sentences

This isn’t your run-of-the-mill refrigerator; you’ll find the extra features well worth the price.

The other had the most run-of-the-mill news which make some of my recent run-of-the-mill columns appear like the raciest escapist fare.

For a deeper, less familiar philosophy, you have to listen to your more run-of-the-mill dossers, and they don't come more run-of-the-mill than Ratso.

In one side of the prestigious commissions, public and private, sacred and profane, which could make the name of an artist, there was a more run of the mill style of painting which already enjoyed a vast clientéle at all levels of society.

Who the more run-of-the-mill victims were is unclear, since they are often not named or have no emblem glyphs attached to them.

Or even more run-of-the-mill murders which usually turn out to be family or business affairs and where someone's usually heard something or, in the case of the more professional killings, someone wants to do a deal.

Someone Great review - another run-of-the-mill romcom from Netflix [title]

Word Forms

• more run-of-the-mill
• most run-of-the-mill
• run of the mill
• run-o'-the-mill

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Use run-of-the-mill when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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