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Chris -- 2018-04-11
“Rule of them” instead of “Rule of Thumb”—First encountered on an Anandtech article which has since been corrected.
Examples can easily be found by googling with the following search string:
“rule of them” -all
Some examples:
“A general rule of them is that “long-day” onions do better in northern states (north of 36th parallel) while “short-day” onions do better in states south of that line.”—http://plantanswers.tamu.edu/publicatio … ongro.html
“As a rule of them, when the American’s turn up, it’s time to make tea.”—http://www.thedigeratipeninsula.org.uk/ … mans-ball/
...and I find this one particularly delicious.
“When I was acquiring manuscripts inside a publishing house, our rule of them was to contract a manuscript to arrive inside the publishing house a full year before the release date.”—http://www.right-writing.com/insight-inside.html
Enjoy!
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