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词组 common
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common

as common as muck: seemuck.

common or garden of the usual or ordinary type. British informal

Common or garden was originally used to describe a plant in its most familiar domesticated form, e.g. 'the common or garden nightshade'.

1964Leonard WoolfLetter I certainly do not agree that the unconscious mind reveals deeper truths about someone else than plain common or garden common sense does.

the common touch the ability to get on with or appeal to ordinary people.

☞ An obsolete sense of common (which comes from Latin communis meaning 'affable') may have influenced this phrase, as may a Shakespearean phrase used in his play about the great exponent of the common touch, King Henry V, on the eve of the battle of Agincourt: 'a little touch of Harry in the night'.

1910Rudyard KiplingIf If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings-nor lose the common touch …

make common cause with: seecause.

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