folk wisdom
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During the Cold War, it was a type of folk wisdom, if not a fairy tale, that in America, “politics stopped at the water’s edge.”
From Salon • Sep. 6, 2025
"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
It is a product of moral poetry rather than of folk wisdom.
From Chapters on Jewish Literature by Abrahams, Israel
