Run of the mill is a little earlier than those and is American in origin. The mill in question was a weaving mill and the articles first called 'run of the mill' were clothes. An early citation of that comes from an advert by Cook, Taylor & Co. of Lowell, Massachusetts in The Lowell Daily Sun, December 1895: "Seconds and the run of the mill, but for all wearing purposes just the same as …

Nov 24, 2021 · Run-of-the-mill first referred to weaving mills and the clothing they produced and took off in the United States in the early 20th century. Why this phrase won out over its kiln and mine counterparts is pretty simple: it's easiest to say.

run-of-the-mill (adj.) "ordinary, unspectacular," 1922, a figurative use of a commercial phrase attested by 1909 in reference to material yielded by a mill (n.1), etc., before sorting for quality (compare common run "usual, ordinary type," from 1712).

Mar 09, 2021 · The ‘run of the mill’ was all the material produced by a mill before it had been inspected for quality. (The word ‘run’ here means ‘all of the output’, in the same sense as ‘print run’.) This use dates back to at least 1876 and the phrase quickly came to refer more generally to goods of uncertain or variable quality.

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The meaning of RUN-OF-THE-MILL is not outstanding in quality or rarity : average, ordinary. How to use run-of-the-mill in a sentence.