out of the common run

Chicken received imaginative treatment, which took it out of the common run.

His adventures, too, were a little out of the common run of tales.

It's a bit out of the common run, being cool, laconic, matter of fact.

On the contrary they recognised vaguely that the old gentleman was something out of the common run, and as such worth cultivating.

But that requires a personal endowment of tastes and talents quite out of the common run.

Another gem was mussels in a white wine broth, orange zest taking the dish out of the common run.

Tucked away on a hillside of Peekskill, Zephs' (736-2159) has always kept up its reputation for workmanly dishes out of the common run.

I was a not atypical middle-class New Zealander of my own war generation but some of my experience was perhaps out of the common run.

It was not for that I arranged to have you come to the city; when I saw you and your men in Imbros, you struck me as being out of the common run of barbarians.

It was obvious that he had no social gifts, but these a man can do without; he had no eccentricity even, to take him out of the common run; he was just a good, dull, honest, plain man.