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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a cardinal rule" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It refers to an important, fundamental rule or principle that is considered essential and unbreakable. Example: "It is a cardinal rule in this company that all employees must arrive to work on time."
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"Police on my side broke a cardinal rule.
It has violated a cardinal rule of bookmaking, however.
But I regularly break a cardinal rule of healthy living: I skip breakfast.
There's a cardinal rule: If it's not broken, don't try to fix it.
"That's when I came up with a cardinal rule," he said.
A cardinal rule here on the bottom is to keep your head down.
A cardinal rule is never to set a rigid time frame in advance.
A cardinal rule in toxicology is "the dose makes the poison".
It is a cardinal rule of Islam that no one should go to the grave unclean.
A cardinal rule of social research is that the plural of anecdote is not "data".
It was a cardinal rule in MI9 that they never used Red Cross parcels.
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