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What does the phrase "garden variety" mean?

The phrase was used in the sentence "That's your typical garden variety travel agent". They're never in their office!

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  1. Garden variety means commonplace.
  2. It means typical, nothing special.
  3. average - run of the mill.
  4. ordinary



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  5. Ordinary. Commonplace. Unadorned. "Vanilla".
  6. common, ordinary, everyday, average, typical, usual
  7. Garden variety originally meant "tame" or "ordinary" - that is with all of the wildness bred out of it - like a thornless rose. The example you give is actually not quite right.
  8. It means typical or average
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