plain old
Adjective
Meaning
plain old (not comparable)
Having no special properties; ordinary.
Examples
It gave me a strange feeling, and the rest of that night I didn't say much, but merely sat there and drank, trying to decide if I was getting older and wiser, or just plain old.
Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.
It's pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.
It is only a plain tale of plain people told in the plain dialect of a plain old woman.
It's funny; in this era of e-mail and voice mail and all those things that even I did not grow up with, a plain old paper letter takes on amazing intimacy.
Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career.