garden-variety

That might only be garden variety hypocrisy were it not for the fact that you actually could make a difference.
Time to Come Home, Edward Snowden, and Stop Hiding Behind a Corrupt Regime|Michael Daly|March 16, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Others suffer a nasty twist of fate that balloons their garden-variety misbehavior into a superscandal.
Will Anthony Weiner Mount a Political Comeback?|Michelle Cottle|July 19, 2012|DAILY BEAST
He loves the retail aspects of politics and relates well to garden-variety voters.
The Pros and Cons of Joe Biden Hitting the Campaign Trail|Michelle Cottle|March 8, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Kerry, like so many of his Senate brethren, is your garden-variety bore.
Mitt Romney: The GOP’s Own John Kerry, or Is He More an Al Gore?|Michelle Cottle|January 14, 2012|DAILY BEAST

Forget your garden-variety tale of congressmen frequenting working girls.
Barney Frank Throws In the Towel, Won’t Seek Reelection in 2012|Michelle Cottle|November 29, 2011|DAILY BEAST
I do not mean to imply that stories of the stork and cabbage-garden variety are to be altogether excluded.
The Sexual Life of the Child|Albert Moll
I am that garden variety, and it took the exercising of many heart interests to toughen my cardiac organ.
The Golden Bird|Maria Thompson Daviess
It was plain the kitten had never known anything of home or a fireside and was simply of the humble garden variety of cat.
The Great Small Cat and Others|May E. Southworth
Such points gave him an air of distinction, and marked him out as quite different from the common or garden variety of cats.
The Story Girl|Lucy Maud Montgomery
It somewhat resembles the Yellow Malta, and is a good garden variety.
The Field and Garden Vegetables of America|Fearing Burr

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garden variety

Ordinary, common, as in I don't want anything special in a VCR—the garden variety will do. This term alludes to a common plant as opposed to a specially bred hybrid. [Colloquial; 1920]

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