Definitions
Wiktionary
- adj. idiomatic Especially plain, ordinary, or unremarkable; having no special, excess or unusual features; plain vanilla
Etymologies
- Uncertain; perhaps most likely bog ("toilet") + standard with obscure semantic development. Believed to derive from early ceramic toilets being produced to exactly the same specification in white only which became known as the bog standard. (Wiktionary)
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Many Stands
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Irish English that's not in American ...
Well-known phrases in Irish English that aren't understood in American English.
or next offer, hoover, plaster, soother, chimnea, craic, bits and bobs, grinds, jumper, mum, chancer, ticks all the boxes and 60 more...
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