rule of thumb

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Rule-of-thumb rationing down the line to the ultimate consumer has resulted in all kinds of inequalities.

From Time Magazine Archive

Rule-of-thumb can never again overcome the rules of averages, of percentages or of economic laws.

From The Romance of a Great Store by Hungerford, Edward