To do so, he felt, would show a lack of intelligence. For advice, he depended on close friends. These were the men with whom he had served during the Civil War.
Mr. Farebrother contended on theory for the desirability of all games, and said that Englishmen's wit was stagnant for want of them; but Lydgate felt certain that he would have played very much less but for the money.
There is every reason to suppose that he desired to make a good impression; and if he fell short of this result, it was not for want of a good deal of intelligent effort.
Whereas book smarts, a person can graduate with a PhD, and then go out into the real world to work and not know what's going on because this person lacks street smarts.
In his younger days—for, after all, there was a dim tradition that he had been, not young, but younger—Uncle Venner was commonly regarded as rather deficient, than otherwise, in his wits.
Like, even from a safety perspective, there's fear for a lot of parents because, you know, we might have kids who elope or don't have good street smarts.
Now, Billy, although he was initially criticized as being slow and unintelligent by his father, he proved to be quite the opposite after his father's death.