ten a penny BrE informal
a dime a dozen AmE informal

Look in the phone book, they're ten a penny.

Anyway, they would fall in love with these Counts who were ten a penny and even pay for their drinks.

Master's degrees are ten a penny in China, but they're pretty worthless.

When he was asked why, he replied: "They are ten a penny in my country."

We're not talking slags here, cause they're ten a penny, but with a gel I like it's really sort of all different.

I've never seen a rat in a dressing-room there but mice a ten a penny.

Soon she would be unemployable, since lithe active women were ten a penny.

In the seventies the popular phrase was, "it's all down to finance, Ideas men are ten a penny".

Helicopters were ten a penny in the Netherlands.

Five dollar moves became ten a penny which may possibly be an indication that the markets are finally running out of steam.

And why were these unscrupulous workers, ten a penny as they were, such money-grubbers?

They're ten a penny in this damned country."

Men like me come ten a penny."

When the other travellers asked him to account for his actions, he said: "They are ten a penny in my country."'

'Experts are ten a penny - and they can be bought.'

Heroes are ten a penny these days."

These rings are ten a penny.

In that year, they had their hit single, "Dreams are Ten a Penny", but the band itself did not exist at the time.

Legends are ten a penny, here in Mistport.

As far as I understand it, commanders were ten a penny and the whole cultural ethos of the navy was based on drink.'

Churning out easily-dislikeable-yet-somehow-alright characters ten a penny.

The Japanese man threw an expensive Nikon camera out of the carriage, adding: "These are ten a penny in my country."

"Dreams Are Ten a Penny"

The argument that degrees are now 'ten a penny' and almost worthless because 'everyone has one' is always perpetuated by people with degrees.

But when I first met him he was still a struggling masseur, at a time when masseurs were ten a penny in Trinidad.

They come a dime a dozen in any big city.

And ruins were a dime a dozen in this land!

War heroes are going to be a dime a dozen right through the decade.

"Here the cute guys are a dime a dozen," she says to one of the other women in the movie.

A dime a dozen, and usually too circumspect to mean much.

A century from now, centenarians may be a dime a dozen.

She was a dime a dozen, yet she had been doing some good in the world.

"With a staff of a hundred, positions in his office were a dime a dozen," she says.

I was unskilled labor, a dime a dozen on the job market.

Solo theater acts are a dime a dozen these days.

Between you and me, they're a dime a dozen.

But new ideas, some physicists complain, are a dime a dozen.

"Nobody cares because celebrities are a dime a dozen here."

IF only cookbooks by chefs really were a dime a dozen.

"If you have a lot of beautiful girls in the clubs, the men are a dime a dozen.

And since Fiber is honestly a dime a dozen for people willing to pay, it's not hard.

Well, such journeys are a dime a dozen on the city's dance stages.

Needless to say, high school valedictorians were a dime a dozen.

Johnson knows that ideas are a dime a dozen, but the magic is in the execution.

Values were a dime a dozen, and they could be an affront to our virtues.

My father used to say: 'Talent is a dime a dozen.

Singers were a dime a dozen, and what was a singer, anyway, without a band?

But vampire powers to cloud the mind are a dime a dozen, most of them can do it.

Performers who retail a cultivated charm are a dime a dozen.