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  • 111Common Law of Business Balance — The Common Law of Business Balance is a meditation on price attributed to John Ruskin. It reads as follows: There is hardly anything in the world that someone cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price …

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  • 112common knowledge — noun anything generally known to everyone • Hypernyms: ↑public knowledge, ↑general knowledge • Hyponyms: ↑ancient history * * * common knowledge UK US noun [uncountable] something that everyone knows …

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  • 113run — [14] Run is quite a widespread Germanic verb, represented also by German rennen and Swedish ränna. Its ultimate ancestry is not known, although links have been suggested with Sanskrit rnoti ‘he moves’ and Greek órnūmi ‘rouse’. The Old English… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 114run — [14] Run is quite a widespread Germanic verb, represented also by German rennen and Swedish ränna. Its ultimate ancestry is not known, although links have been suggested with Sanskrit rnoti ‘he moves’ and Greek órnūmi ‘rouse’. The Old English… …

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  • 115Common at large — Large Large (l[aum]rj), a. [Compar. {Larger} (l[aum]r j[ e]r); superl. {Largest}.] [F., fr. L. largus. Cf. {Largo}.] 1. Exceeding most other things of like kind in bulk, capacity, quantity, superficial dimensions, or number of constituent units;… …

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  • 116Common Buttonquail — Kurrichane Buttonquail Conservation status Least Concern ( …

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  • 117run-of-the-mill — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. average, commonplace, ordinary; see common 1 . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. average, ordinary, common, mediocre, fair, everyday, routine, so so, regular, *comme ci, comme ca. ANT.: extraordinary, superlative, unique …

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  • 118common sense — noun sound practical judgment (Freq. 2) Common sense is not so common he hasn t got the sense God gave little green apples fortunately she had the good sense to run away • Syn: ↑good sense, ↑gumption, ↑horse sense, ↑ …

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  • 119run in the blood — or[run in the family] {v. phr.} To be a common family characteristic; be learned or inherited from your family. * /A great interest in gardening runs in his family./ * /Red hair runs in the family./ …

    Dictionary of American idioms

  • 120run in the blood — or[run in the family] {v. phr.} To be a common family characteristic; be learned or inherited from your family. * /A great interest in gardening runs in his family./ * /Red hair runs in the family./ …

    Dictionary of American idioms