Englishgarden
noun
she longed for a house with a garden:
piece of land, plot;
lawn;
park, estate, grounds;
North American yard;
archaic garth.
□ garden-varietyNorth American □ lead someone up the garden path
he is just your harmless garden-variety attention-seeking buffoon:
commonplace, ordinary, run-of-the-mill, middle-of-the-road, mainstream, unremarkable, unexceptional, undistinguished, uninspired, unexciting, unmemorable, forgettable, indifferent, average, so-so, mediocre, pedestrian, prosaic, lacklustre, dull, bland, uninteresting, mundane, everyday, quotidian, humdrum, hackneyed, trite, banal, clichéd, predictable, overused, overdone, overworked, stale, worn out, time-worn, tired, unoriginal, derivative;
British common or garden;
informal nothing to write home about, nothing to get excited about, no great shakes, not so hot, not up to much, vanilla, plain vanilla, bog-standard, a dime a dozen, old hat, corny, played out;
British, informal not much cop;
North American, informal ornery, bush-league, cornball, dime-store;
Australian, New Zealand, informal half-pie.
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