mother wit

Gault eventually got there, reclaiming a bit of her mom's "mother wit."

To understand the limits of my own education and the farther reach of mother wit.

As for their viewing of Spike Lee’s movie, the scene that Tanne derives from it is a minor masterwork of ironic psychology and mother wit.

She encouraged me to listen carefully to what country people called mother wit.

But mother wit and “needs must” trained him in a short time to win the ear of an audience.