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Eudora Thao
2021-03-14 12:03
Conventional/received wisdom noun phrase
General knowledge is accepted by the public.
The received wisdom has it that give a man a fish and you feed him for a day, but teach a man to fish and he'll eat forever.
The conventional wisdom is that if the dragonfly flies high it will be sunny, and if it flies low there will be rain.
The expression is often recorded to the economist John Kenneth Galbraith, who used it in his book The Affluent Society in 1958.
Do you see anything wrong?
1. To punch a hole in one's ticket to show that they have paid for a ride
2. To do something that allows one to go further in a competition or to be promoted at work
1. Please, tell me if I forget to punch your ticket.
2. With a view to punching my ticket to the final, I did whatever it takes to win this round.
