plain brown wrapper

Season tickets, we assume, arrive in a plain brown wrapper.

Encountering pulp was a family affair, undertaken together, in plain view, not hidden in a plain brown wrapper as Nemec’s novels surely would have been.

A: I remember the thrilling times at my friend Paula's house when I was about your daughter's age when Paula would abscond with her father's Playboy as soon as it hit the mail slot, surgically remove it from its plain brown wrapper, and we would gleefully laugh over every page.

For most of human existence, men had to rely on traditional tools like their wit or Dutch courage, maybe a pickup manual advertised in the back of a men’s magazine and delivered in a plain brown wrapper.

A man whose public personality came in a plain brown wrapper presided during an era of radical change and rebirth in the city, much of it fostered by his administration.