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common as an old shoe

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*common as an old shoe

 and *common as dirt

low class; uncouth. (*Also: as ~.) That ill-mannered girl is just as common as an old shoe. Despite Mamie's efforts to appear to be upper class, most folks considered her common as dirt.

See also: common, old, shoe