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Down-to-earth   /daʊn-tu-ərθ/   Listen
Down-to-earth

adjective
1.
Sensible and practical.  Synonym: earthy.  "Her earthy common sense"






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"Down-to-earth" Quotes from Famous Books



... scientific training, it was Dave Miller himself who grasped the down-to-earth idea that started them hoping again. He was walking about the lab, jingling keys in his pocket, when suddenly he stopped short. He jerked the ring of ...
— The Day Time Stopped Moving • Bradner Buckner

... seems to have been printed about 1885. I got my copy when I was still a teenager (nth-hand; I am not really as old as all that!) and have greatly enjoyed the enlightened, yet practical and down-to-earth attitude of the writer. It seems to me a fine example of late Victorian instructional material of the unpretentious persuasion. Some of Browne's views were ahead of his time in terms of compassion and conservation, so I urge modern readers not ...
— Practical Taxidermy • Montagu Browne



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