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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?
Men are normally responsible for building the house, while women decorate that house to make it become a home.
A: I built this house; meanwhile, my wife was in charge of designing its interior and exterior.
B: It is true that men make houses, women make homes.
