RE: OFF-TOPIC: resource for sayings

Subject: RE: OFF-TOPIC: resource for sayings
From: "Cummings, Elizabeth" <CummEl -at- ncs -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 12:08:03 -0600

Not sure about an online resource, but James Rogers' The Dictionary of
Cliches (ISBN 0-517-06020-5, 1992 ed.) covers one of these:

"'Rule of Thumb': A rough measure or guide. The part of the thumb from the
knuckle to the end is approximately one inch and has often served as a
measure when a more precise one was not at hand. Probably the 'rule'
originated here. Sir William Hope told his readers in The Compleat
Fencing-Master (1692): 'What he doth, he doth by rule of Thumb, and not by
art.'"

--E. Cummings


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