worldly wiseman
(also Worldly Wiseman)
noun
A person who is worldly-wise (now only with allusion to the character so named in Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress (as Mr. Worldly-Wiseman: ed. 2, 1679, p. 16)).
Origin
Mid 16th century. After wise man.
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