All no great shakes synonyms
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N n adj no great shakes
- cut and dried — If you say that a situation or solution is cut and dried, you mean that it is clear and definite.
- garden variety — common, usual, or ordinary; unexceptional.
- mediocre — of only ordinary or moderate quality; neither good nor bad; barely adequate: The car gets only mediocre mileage, but it's fun to drive. Synonyms: undistinguished, commonplace, pedestrian, everyday; run-of-the-mill. Antonyms: extraordinary, superior, uncommon, incomparable.
- fairish — moderately good, large, or well: a fairish income.
- garden-variety — common, usual, or ordinary; unexceptional.
- characterless — If you describe something as characterless, you mean that it is dull and uninteresting.
adjective no great shakes
- garden — Alexander, 1730?–91, U.S. naturalist, born in Scotland.
- whitebread — any white or light-colored bread made from finely ground, usually bleached, flour.
- workaday — of or befitting working days; characteristic of a workday and its occupations.
- ordinary — of no special quality or interest; commonplace; unexceptional: One novel is brilliant, the other is decidedly ordinary; an ordinary person.