conventional wisdom

Despite conventional wisdom, there are no rewards just for participating.

Conventional wisdom holds that most excessive drinkers are alcohol dependent.

Contrary to the conventional wisdom, there is nothing intrinsically “progressive” about hating suburbs.

At its worst, The Stranger merely recycles the biases, conventional wisdom, and cynical bitterness of inside-the-beltway habitués.

OFA turned conventional wisdom on its head and made it dance.

She made little remarks full of conventional wisdom, and appealed to his judgment on several points as they drove along.