The run , ∨ The common run , etc. Meaning, Definition & Usage
Definitions
- ordinary persons; the generality or average of people or things; also, that which ordinarily occurs; ordinary current, course, or kind.
I saw nothing else that is superior to the common run of parks. Walpole.
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. Prof. Wilson.
His whole appearance was something out of the common run. W. Irving.