Ordinary Phrases

Phrases

• A Life Less Ordinary (Ewan McGregor / Cameron Diaz movie)
• A victory for common sense
• As common as muck
• As plain as a pikestaff
• As plain as day
• As plain as the nose on your face
• Break out of the ordinary (Nestle's Butterfinger advertising slogan)
• Common ground
• Common or garden
• Common sense
• Fair to middling
• Fair to midland
• Ground ball (A baseball expression meaning a prosaic or ordinary accomplishment)
• Hidden in plain sight
• I'm smarter than the average bear! (A catchphrase from The Yogi Bear Show)
• In plain sight
• It's only natural
• It's so simple (Polaroid advertising slogan)
• Joe Six Pack
• Just a regular guy
• Keep it simple stupid
• Least common denominator
• Life's simple pleasures
• Low man on the totem pole
• Makes sensible buying simple (Access Credit Card advertising slogan)
• Motherhood and apple pie
• No great shakes
• Nothing in common
• Plain Jane
• Plain sailing
• Plain speaking
• Pure and simple
• Purl or plain
• Run of the mill
• Same old same old
• Silver bullet (a simple and seeming effortless solution to a difficult problem)
• Simple Simon met a pieman going to the fair (line from nursery rhyme)
• Simple life
• Simple yet effective
• The Ordinary Superstar (Nickname of Johnny Rodgers)
• The common good
• The common touch
• The man in the street
• The man on the Clapham omnibus
• The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain
• The truth is rarely pure and never simple (Oscar Wilde quotation)
• We make it simple (Honda advertising slogan)