Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Common

Common as the stones in our streets.
—Thomas Adams

Common as a convenient saving.
—Anonymous

Common as backfence cats.
—Anonymous

Common as boiled cabbage.
—Anonymous

Common as coals from Newcastle.
—Anonymous

Common as daisies.
—Anonymous

Common as lying.
—Anonymous

Common as pig tracks in wet weather.
—Anonymous

Common as pins.
—Anonymous

Common as pug noses in Pittsburgh.
—Anonymous

Common as sawdust around a sawmill.
—Anonymous

Common as the town sewer.
—Anonymous

Common as the air.
—Aphra Behn

Common as Robin Adair on a full brass band.
—Arnold Bennett

Common as rain.
—Pierce Egan

Common as poverty.
—Mrs.
—Gaskell

Friendship as common as a prostitute’s favors.
—Oliver Goldsmith

Common as a barker’s chair.
—Stephen Gosson

As common as the power of moving the ears voluntarily, which is a moderately rare endowment.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes

Common as a mart.
—Ben Jonson

Comune as the cart-wey to knaves and to alle.
—William Langland

Common as Get-out.
—Vincent Stuckey Lean (Collectanea)

Common as delirium tremens in New York.
—Alfred Henry Lewis

Common as scolding at Billingsgate.
—John Lyly

Common as the highway.
—John Ray (Handbook of Proverbs, 1670)

Common as dirt.
—Charles Reade

Common as the stairs
That mount the Capitol.
—William Shakespeare

Common as any tavern door.
—Edward Sharpham

Common as light is love, and its familiar voice wearies not ever.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley

Common as bribery.
—John Webster

Common as sickness.
—John Webster

Common as dew and sunshine.
—John Greenleaf Whittier