lowest common denominator
least common denominator , l.c.d. (Abkürzung)

We must not put up with the lowest common denominator.

They are, however, far from being the lowest common denominator.

I know it's going to mean the lowest common denominator.

We do not have to bring things down to the lowest common denominator right from the start.

"Not quite the lowest common denominator but something near that."

Actual people do not seem quite lowest common denominator enough.

"It's easy to take the lowest common denominator, but at some point you have to get them to give a little, too."

That will lead to the lowest common denominator of international control, or none at all.

The only reason I did that was to say, okay, here's the lowest common denominator.

Too often, by appealing to the lowest common denominator, they seem to do better.

As such, "all of them are likely to go for the lowest common denominator," he said.

Why should we always adapt to the lowest common denominator?

Let us not be manipulated into the move to the lowest common denominator.

Therefore, the film had to be sold to the lowest common denominator.

"We have to teach to the lowest common denominator," she said.

But he is not going to the lowest common denominator."

And it has had the effect of reducing our culture to the lowest common denominator.

Or does he see the company, in its bid for class, as now playing to the lowest common denominator?

I am against standards being based on the principle of the lowest common denominator.

I try to reduce the basics to the lowest common denominator.

You can even make movies that do well at the box office without playing to the lowest common denominator.

It results in decisions "of the lowest common denominator," he added.

Or do you continue to build for the lowest common denominator."

There needs to be a band that takes Rock back to its lowest common denominator.

"Everybody's being treated to the lowest common denominator," he said.

But she's me stripped down to the least common denominator.

"We design all our sites for the least common denominator," he said.

"It's destroying the system to bring everyone down to the least common denominator."

It is an attempt to relate art to a least common denominator.

Let's get started by breaking down carbohydrates to their least common denominators.

I attempted to find a least common denominator, but without the slightest success.

"It is not incumbent on the airlines to be the least common denominator here.

Of course there are applications where the least common denominator is 'good enough'.

The operations you can perform on all the composite objects often have a least common denominator relationship.

There used to be a least common denominator.

Minimalism has been reduced to its least common denominator.

We are dead without our technology, at least at some least common denominator level.

"It is still operating like a tea party, keeping to the safe points and waiting for a consensus based on the least common denominator."

Three thousand years had reduced everything to least common denominators: lumps and stains on the rock.

"I had nothing else to do," Maurice said today as he calculated the least common denominator for 2/3, 4/7 and 1/2.

"What is the least common denominator," he shouted, directing the onlookers to numbers scribbled on a board.

(If the numbers are rational, then multiply them with the least common denominator.)

Although managed care is a good idea, in reality it is usually the least common denominator of care when put into practice.

"And play to the least common denominator.

This method always works, but sometimes there is a smaller denominator that can be used (a least common denominator).

For the cult of the least common denominator is also an American tradition; we keep cultural peace by forcing everyone to sheathe swords.

Presented under a tent, these man-conquers-beast displays usually represent the glitzy, least common denominator of show business.

Least common denominator, I thought sadly.

"If I agree to help you, I refuse to let you fall back on the least common denominator.

The standard method, which is to convert to fractions using the least common denominator, may not have appeared in the first edition, according to some critics.