dime a dozen

Movies about middle-aged women seeking a new lease on life are a dime a dozen, but it’s rare to find one as gloriously strange, tender and erotic as “Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry,” from Georgian director Elene Naveriani.

Coming-of-age dramas may be a dime a dozen at Sundance, but one this tender and truthful can make an entire subgenre feel shimmeringly new.

People with his views are a dime a dozen all over the South.

Bachelor’s degrees are a dime a dozen, she told me.

Today predictions for new ghostlike particles are almost a dime a dozen, but in the early part of the last century, introducing potentially unobservable particles simply wasn’t done.