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org/dictionary/british/run-of-the-mill ? It's 'run-of-the-mill' , and it means 'ordinary '.
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- It's 'run-of-the-mill' , and it means 'ordinary '.
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Did you try looking it up in a http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/run-of-the-mill?
It's 'run-of-the-mill', and it means 'ordinary'.
Did you try looking it up in a http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/run-of-the-mill?
It's 'run-of-the-mill', and it means 'ordinary'.
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"Run of the mill" is an idiom indicating that the subject is very ordinary. (Nothing special.)
A mill mass-produces a product quickly and automatically. It could be a saw mill turning trees into boards, or it could be a textile mill, producing cloth by the hundreds of yards - all the same, for a particular "run." (They run some of this, and then some of that, and then they run som
A mill mass-produces a product quickly and automatically. It could be a saw mill turning trees into boards, or it could be a textile mill, producing cloth by the hundreds of yards - all the same, for a particular "run." (They run some of this, and then some of that, and then they run som
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Sometimes we say, "That woman looks like she's been through the mill," but that's a different idiom. 
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