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"text": "\"MY dear fellow,\" said Sherlock Holmes, as we sat on either side of the fire in his lodgings at Baker-street, \"life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere commonplaces of existence.[…]\"",
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"To enter in a commonplace book, or to reduce to general heads."
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with obsolete senses",
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1910, Elinor Glyn, chapter 4, in His Hour:",
"text": "And something angered Tamara in the way the Prince assisted in all this, out-commonplacing her friend in commonplaces with the suavest politeness.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"text": "c. January 1620, Francis Bacon, letter to the King\nFor the good that comes of particular and select committees and commissions, I need not commonplace.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To utter commonplaces; to indulge in platitudes."
],
"links": [
[
"platitude",
"platitude"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(obsolete) To utter commonplaces; to indulge in platitudes."
],
"tags": [
"obsolete"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈkɑmənˌpleɪs/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈkɒmənˌpleɪs/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
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],
"synonyms": [
{
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "common place"
},
{
"tags": [
"archaic"
],
"word": "common-place"
}
],
"word": "commonplace"
}
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