average Jane

average Jane

An average, unexceptional, or ordinary girl or woman. Derived from the more common phrase "average Joe," which generally refers to a boy or man. What sets me apart from your average Jane, though, is my tenacity and ferocity in business. I'm as much a fan of the show as the average Jane, but I don't watch it religiously.
See also: average, Jane
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • Jane
  • average Joe
  • average bear
  • on the average
  • on an average
  • average up
  • on average
  • a cut above average
  • average
  • below average
References in periodicals archive
"I was your average Jane sitting at home when the doctor diagnosed me with osteoporosis and said that I would not be able to do all the things that I'm doing today ...
Now, everyone that got married last year is waiting to see if they'll remain "legally wed." So it's no surprise that many of this year's wedding articles explain the rules and legislation and even cultural confines that regulate our lives and our right to marry who we love, whether you're in the military, just coming out, in love with an immigrant or just an average Jane planning nuptials outside the confines of the courthouse.
WREXHAM have been a club of more ironies than your average Jane Austen novel over the past few years, and Saturday added another.
It's an anomaly across industries that explains why the economy may be growing, but it doesn't feel that way to the average Jane or Joe.
In the gray zone is Heffron's 22-year-old protagonist Mitzi, an Average Jane who works at a sandwich shop, belongs to a book group and studies Esperanto for fun.
He's the voice of business reporting on American Public Media, delivering business news with a bit of sass, occasional irreverence and a whole lot of punch to the average Jane and Joe.
The average Jane (and it's almost always a Jane, not a Joe) is expected to become a holiday manager extraordinaire, and to keep smiling while she does it all.
"I am concerned that the average Jane and the average Joe ...
But it has not changed the political life of the average Jane and Joe, who still pay little attention to politics and government," concludes the Foundation for Public Affairs.
Granted that it's not easy for the average Jane or Joe, waiting on a frigid morning for a bus or commuter train to arrive, to exclaim, "Golly, gee, I can hardly wait to get to my dignified job!" It might help, perhaps, if each of them could say to themselves, "At least no one else could do my job the way I do it."
Even though trainer and Bravo personality Jackie Warner could definitely out-bench the average Jane, outraged viewers of her show, Work Out, are muscling to have it cancelled.