common clay

English

Noun

common clay (uncountable)

  1. The ordinary, run-of-the-mill people.
    • 1929, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, When the World Screamed‎:
      "It is the privilege of the original thinker to put forward ideas which are new and usually unwelcome to the common clay."
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