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rule of thumb
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    Most of the time she wouldn't even live by that basic wifely rule of thumb, "What he doesn't know won't hurt him."†  (source)
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    As a first rule of thumb, therefore, you can tell a true war story by its absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil.†  (source)
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    but also several of my own colleagues, this latter being an outstanding example of the old rule of thumb, that when a handsome woman walks in through the door, good judgment flies out through the window.†  (source)
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    Otherwise the rule of thumb is fifty-fifty on the earnings from the book after the costs are paid.†  (source)
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    He was struggling not to allow into his mind the thought that was pressing against its periphery: What were the chances and how long would it take-according to the mathematical theory of probability-for primitive men, working by rule-of-thumb, to hit the right combination of parts and re-create the motor of this engine?†  (source)
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    Here are a few rules of thumb: A. Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognizeasfood.†  (source)
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    A good rule of thumb when you drink with a subject is that you keep yourself twice as sober as he is.†  (source)
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    A magician is a rule-of-thumb engineer.†  (source)
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    It borrows from it devices, tricks, stratagems, rules of thumb, themes, converts them into a system, and discards the rest.†  (source)
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    We learned to tell the workers from the warriors — if you had time, you could tell from the shape of the carapace, but the quick rule of thumb was: If he comes at you, he's a warrior; if he runs, you can turn your back on him.†  (source)
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    Grammar of my life: as a rule of thumb, wherever there appears a plural, correct for singular.†  (source)
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    I didn't know who they were or who they worked for, but a good general rule of thumb is to avoid people with electric stun guns.†  (source)
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    In all my adventures among hundreds of Americans I have discovered that the rule of thumb does not work.†  (source)
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