'the ways of the world' definitions:
Definition of 'the ways of the world'
(from WordNet)
noun
The manner in which people typically behave or things typically happen; "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" [syn: the way of the world, the ways of the world]