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out of the ordinary

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Idioms and Phrases

Unusual, uncommon, exceptional, as in The venison they served was certainly out of the ordinary . This expression sometimes, but not always, indicates that something is better than the usual. However, the negative version, nothing out of the ordinary , usually indicates that something is not special or outstanding, as in It was an interesting lecture, but nothing out of the ordinary .

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Kallen knows that her experience was out of the ordinary and that most people can easily spend that much in just a single year of cancer treatment.

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But the threat of violence was out of the ordinary, a Metro representative told The Times.

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On the evening of 16 July 2023 there was initially nothing out of the ordinary as I drove down with my sister, Gail.

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“It’s nothing too out of the ordinary.”

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Jeffrey Mount, a senior fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California’s Water Policy Center, said the announcement didn’t seem out of the ordinary for the Bureau of Reclamation, which typically sets allocations based on the current conditions.

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