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conventional wisdom
noun as in popular notion
Example Sentences
It also runs up against more than a century of American conventional wisdom about fire safety.
“The conventional wisdom is that as yields rise in Japan, the Japanese are more likely to keep their savings at home rather than export it,” Chandler said.
Drawing on nearly 90,000 assessments, the largest data set of its kind, the results challenge the conventional wisdom about the primacy of family in our culture, with implications both personal and professional.
And conventional wisdom might give the edge to Netflix, whose runaway success as a streamer has made it the new king of Hollywood.
His hiring strategy was deliberate sabotage against conventional wisdom.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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