The phrase "abandoned common" is not standard in written English and may cause confusion.
It could be used in contexts discussing shared spaces or resources that have been neglected or left behind.
Example: "The once vibrant park has now become an abandoned common, overgrown with weeds and littered with debris."
Alternatives: "neglected common" or "deserted common".
Nevertheless, it's easy for an outsider to think these infiltrators have abandoned common sense.
In an effort to avoid any hint of favoritism, some schools have also abandoned common sense.
It is as though successive groups of public authority figures completely abandoned common sense, forgetting entirely about context.
Let's face it: too many of us abandoned common sense and grabbed for that pie in the sky.
They shovelled the proceeds into public employment, loss-making state companies and welfare programmes.To keep this show on the road, Ms Fernández's government abandoned common sense.
Since the Paris attacks, they have abandoned common sense, in part because they are so caught up in the eddies of vengeance, Western supremacy and rage.
Louis, the melancholy, abandoned common-law husband, who runs a business called MetaFashion, is described as "the child an Anita Brookner heroine might have had, supposing an acceptable suitor had turned up to woo her and then she'd turned him away, although pregnant, on moral grounds".
Disputes between neighbors can indeed be savage, with matters getting so overwrought that everyone involved seems to abandon common sense.
Tory and Labour governments are equally guilty of abandoning common prudence when a weapons system builder flies the union flag.
The dislike of abandoning common sense may seem like over-simplification, though it may better be described as distaste for scholasticism.
When implementing new decision-making tools, the hospital will need to guard against "learned helplessness", where people become so reliant on automated instructions that they abandon common sense.
