プログレッシブ和英中辞典(第4版)の解説
よのつね【世の常】
正直者が損をするのは世の常だ
It is our everyday experience that honesty does not pay.／Honest people tend to lose out in this world.
世の常ならば彼も今ごろは次官ぐらいにはなっていたろうに
If everything had gone smoothly, he would have been at least a vice-minister by now.
彼は世の常の父親ではない
He is 「not a usual [no ordinary] father.
彼女は世の常の秘書とは少し違う
She is 「not a run-of-the-mill secretary [different from the common run of secretaries].