rule of thumb
C1 a practical and approximate way of doing or measuring something:
A good rule of thumb is that a portion of rice is two handfuls.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Approximate
- (a) sort of idiom
- -ish
- about
- approx
- approximate
- approximately
- effect
- in the vicinity of idiom
- loosely
- maybe
- more
- more or less idiom
- round
- rule
- sense
- something
- something like 96 percent, half, etc. idiom
- somewhere
- sort
- sorta
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