Take a prevailing pillar of wisdom and knock it flat.
"At the time, Bruce Lee was knocking out Dragon movies, and Dino, in his wisdom, decided people would think it was a kung-fu movie", he later recalled.
Received wisdom is that her own pre-A Journey book fatally diluted Tony's market-share – knocking his worth down from the £7million he'd been expected to get when the rights went up for auction.
Some people interpret this wisdom to mean that they should spend no time getting to know buyers and when a large company is ready to buy their startup, they'll come knocking.
Fictional badgers offer food and shelter, wisdom and kindness; whereas real badgers knock over your dustbin.
This was a convention week in which conventional wisdom held that Mr. Gore needed to knock one out of the park tonight.
Common wisdom is that Belarus cannot possibly knock off two powers in a row after stunning Sweden, 4-3, yesterday in the biggest upset since 1980.
He knows how businessmen, faced with a terrible proposal, will say, "Let's table it for now"; he registers how door-to-door salesmen point out, "A stranger rings, a friend knocks"; he cites the wisdom of Jack Welch.
Conventional wisdom suggests that a U.S. recession will knock down global growth, thereby reducing demand for commodities, a vital economic input.
We're coming up on the second anniversary of my piece "Myths of Austerity", in which I tried to knock down the simply insane conventional wisdom then gelling among Very Serious People.
