the way of the world, n.
the manner in which people typically behave or things typically happen
<noun.act>
the way of the world the ways of the world
sample sentences
"the ordinary reader is endowed with considerable wisdom and knowledge of the way of the world""she was well-versed in the ways of the world before she had taken the veil"
"he was amazingly innocent of the ways of the world"
semantic pointers
hypernym