conventional wisdom

Preposition: of

• business: In defiance of the conventional wisdom of modern business, open source methods have led the main underlying innovations around the Internet.
• day: The conventional wisdom of the day was, at best, to be able to stabilize bone cancer for a few years.

Converse of object

• challenge: The findings challenge the conventional wisdom that low intensity forms of EI have little effect on performance.
• defy: As will have been gathered, communists defy conventional wisdom.
• become: This interpretation became the conventional wisdom both inside Departments and among medicines manufacturers and others outside government.
• question: Be that as it may, we try to anticipate both challenges and opportunities, question conventional wisdom, and identify long-term trends.

Adjective modifier

• postwar: The policy of artificially stimulating investment is also too reminiscent of postwar conventional wisdom.