folk wisdom
Example Sentences
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"This folk wisdom is fully applicable to modern relations between our countries."
From Reuters • Sep. 13, 2023
This bit of folk wisdom is meant to warn people about poison ivy, a noxious vine in the genus Toxicodendron found throughout much of North America.
From National Geographic • Apr. 18, 2023
As a man in my 40s, I had sort of believed the folk wisdom that metabolism slowed as we aged.
From Scientific American • Dec. 13, 2022
He seeded his writing with a blend of gentle humor and folk wisdom wrapped in tight rhymes and loose meters, as in his poem “Take Care of Yer Friends”:
From New York Times • Jun. 24, 2022
He was full of the folk wisdom of his people.
From The Common Man by Schelling, George Luther
