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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



... 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 ...
— Practical Taxidermy • Montagu Browne
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