in his wisdom

in his/her/their (infinite) wisdom

(humorous)

something that you say when you do not understand why someone has done something and think that it was a stupid action The council, in their wisdom, decided to close the library and now the building stands empty.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
DorothÉE	do-ro-TE	French
Tatjana	TAHT-yah-nah (Finnish)	Serbian, Croatian, Slovene, Macedonian, German, Latvian, Lithuanian, Finnish
Margarida	mar-ga-REE-də (Portuguese)	Portuguese, Galician, Catalan, Occitan
Ambrosia	-	Ancient Greek
Susy	['su:zi]
Christabella	kris-tə-BEL-ə	English (Rare)