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Idiom
Rule of thumb.
(USA) A basic rule that is usually but not always correct.
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The performances of several Working Title films would seem to confirm this rule of thumb.
But some salesclerks offer this rule of thumb to hurry customers on their way.
This rule of thumb is especially true for Latinos, African-Americans, Middle Easterners, Pacific Islanders, and women in general.
Using this rule of thumb, businesses can start to promote self-learning, job swaps, job shadowing, coaching and mentoring arrangements.
Figure 1 shows the prescriptions from this rule of thumb together with a second version that includes interest-rate smoothing.
Dr Eigler and other optimistic nanotechnologists must hope this rule of thumb applies to nanotechnology as well.
This rule of thumb works pretty well most of the time, but it can lead to big mistakes when frequency and ease of recall diverge.
(Mines and poison gas, exceptions to this rule of thumb, may be disliked, Mr. van Creveld suggests, precisely because they don't resemble penises).
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This rule-of-thumb cannot be used without care as it cannot be applied to vipers, which have a large number of small scales on the head.
Of course, this rule-of-thumb also has the benefit of keeping our task more manageable.
For our fungi proteomes, this rule-of-thumb number is on the order of 20 bits.
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