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Rule of the thing
A fun
idiom
that means "a broadly accurate guide or principle, based on practice rather than theory." It is exactly like "
Rule of Thumb
" but without the added joke that it's meaning stems from
domestic abuse
.
The general
rule of the thing
is to add the
ingredients
when the water starts to
boil
by
Heylin
September 14, 2019
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