way of the world

Noun

Meaning

way of the world (plural ways of the world)

(sometimes pluralized, almost always preceded by the) The manner, often unavoidable or displeasing, in which events usually unfold or in which people usually behave.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom. Michel de Montaigne

Compromise is said to be the way of the world and yet I find myself feeling sick trying to accept what it has done to me. Douglas Coupland

Most rich people get rich by taking what they want without paying for it. It's the way of the world. John Brunner

We think we are the victims of time. In reality, the way of the world isn't fixed anywhere. How could that be possible? We are our own journey. And therefore we are time as well. We are the same. Fugitive. Inscrutable. Ruthless. Cormac McCarthy

Is this how you repay my goodness--with badness?” cried the boy. "Of course,” said the crocodile out of the corner of his mouth. "That is the way of the world. Alex Haley

Poor thanks is the way of the world. Norwegian Proverb

Close letter words and terms

Way of St. James Way of the Cross way of the gods way of thinking way of working way of writing