bog-standard

• “At what he calls a "bog-standard" comprehensive in Devon, where "pretty much the only thing I learned was how to roll a joint", he got a C in O-level English lit, a grade one CSE in drama, and nothing else.”

  The Guardian: Can Toby Young's free school succeed?

• “Everything on that list is bog-standard moderate Democratic Party politics.”

  Matthew Yglesias » Alternative Voting

• “Later, a bog-standard gag about text-message jargon transposed to real life is made hilarious by the tantalising delicacy with which Merchant's doctor delivers bad news.”

  The Guardian: Stephen Merchant: Hello Ladies – review

• “Hohner have the history and the brand name, but their bog-standard Pro Harp models are uninspiring.”

  On Harmonicas « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog

• “You will perhaps know that moment in a fancy restaurant when you open the wine list and feel the pinpricks of a cold sweat: they're charging how much for that bog-standard claret?”

  The Guardian: Wine: You can count on barbera

• “With education we do not even have that option, which makes it worse than a bog-standard monopoly.”

  Technological Determinishm, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

• “It was completed last year to replace a bog-standard 70s construction.”

  The Guardian: Sustainable schools: you can learn a lot in a retirement home for poultry

• “My very first Vista machine had major wireless networking issues, and just in the last week I had to go through a convoluted correspondence with Microsoft to get my newest Vista box to successfully communicate with a bog-standard wireless router.”

  Windows 7 Reality Check: It Can Still Suck Big Time | Lifehacker Australia

• “The transformation of monopolies such as water and airports into bog-standard equity-owned companies was a mistake.”

  The Guardian: Ownership: Heathrow's prisoners should sue the daylights out of BAA | the big issue

• “In this respect, Mr. Cameron trotted out the usual bog-standard measures: export promotion; infrastructure upgrades; investment in education and science; whizzy new government initiatives to increase the supply of venture capital.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Ask Germany where growth comes from

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