commonplace vs dead calm

commonplace

adj
  • Ordinary; not having any remarkable characteristics. 

noun
  • A platitude or cliché. 

  • A commonplace book. 

  • Something that is ordinary; something commonly done or occurring. 

  • A memorandum; something to be frequently consulted or referred to. 

verb
  • To make a commonplace book. 

  • To enter in a commonplace book, or to reduce to general heads. 

dead calm

adj
  • Completely still with no waves and no wind. 

noun
  • The condition of a perfectly flat sea with no waves and no wind. 

How often have the words commonplace and dead calm occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )