But, as popular wisdom went on this part of the planet, if you didn't like the weather, stick around five minutes.

That's the universal popular wisdom, and like anything that almost everyone believes, it's wrong.

I know the popular wisdom is that large institutions are not the way to go, but it worked for us.

According to popular wisdom, a dog is a man's best friend, but I would vote for aspirin.

Only a dictator with a strong hand can put his country through the pain of economic reform, went the popular wisdom.

Those men are not, as popular wisdom would have it, mostly working more to make up the lost pay.

He sees in the book exactly the sort of lofty popular wisdom that could make for a hit movie.

The criminal secretly wants to get caught, so ran the popular wisdom.

Others may think that the popular wisdom has much to recommend it.