Synonym: guideline, guidepost. Similar words: rule of law, rule out, thumb, thumbs up, state-of-the-art, state of the art, rule, ruler. Meaning: n. a rule or principle that provides guidance to appropriate behavior.
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1. He often works by rule of thumb.
2. A good rule of thumb is that a broker must generate sales of ten times his salary if his employer is to make a profit.
3. As a rule of thumb, you should cook a chicken for 20 minutes for each pound that it weighs.
4. As a general rule of thumb, children this age should not spend more than one hour on homework.
5. A good rule of thumb is that a portion of rice is two and a half handfuls.
6. As a rule of thumb, you should cook a chicken for 20 minutes for each pound of weight.
7. The rule of thumb no longer mattered.
8. In general, the rule of thumb was that one's peers were seconded to perform the role.
9. A good rule of thumb is to make the spacing between the bars one half of the width of the bars.
10. Rebuilding costs might be calculated on a rule of thumb basis but the assumptions would be relatively arbitrary.
11. But despite its drawbacks, primogeniture did offer a rule of thumb that commanded widespread respect.
12. The rule of thumb for making good use of a metaphor is to compare what is said with what is meant.
13. As a rule of thumb, every storey makes a difference of one-tenth of a second to a building's period.
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14. A good rule of thumb is to think of 30k as around the upper limit for a page.
15. This fact is the basis for the one-drink-an-hour rule of thumb for remaining sober.
16. As a rule of thumb no source node name should occur in just one link object nor in many link objects.
17. Journalists have a rule of thumb: the more a person knows, the more that person can learn.
18. As a rule of thumb, funds with durations of one to three years are relatively conservative.
19. As a rule of thumb, always use a rear foot kick after a feint.
20. Every student's rule of thumb should be: study hard!
21. I just do it by rule of thumb.
22. He can predict a typhoon by rule of thumb.
23. The rule of thumb in this business is courtesy.
24. As a rule of thumb, the higher the better.
25. As a rule of thumb, a cup of filter coffee contains about 80mg of caffeine.
26. You should tip bellmen $1- $2 per bag, as a rule of thumb.
27. In all directions it seemed that scientific investigation was triumphing over ignorance, and scientific analysis replacing rule of thumb.
28. Boss your men and shame your women; that was a rule of thumb with him.
29. It was a place, Wade came to understand, where lost was a rule of thumb.
30. Objections to the tacit assumption of Saint-Venant's principle or the above rule of thumb arise however. 1.
More similar words: rule of law, rule out, thumb, thumbs up, state-of-the-art, state of the art, rule, ruler, ruled, as a rule, virulent, out of the question, humble, humbly, miranda rule, freedom of the press, to my way of thinking, let the cat out of the bag, majority rule, a couple of, a bundle of, exclusionary rule, in the middle of, article of faith, more often than not, thus, thud, fifth, off the rack, thunder.