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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.'"
IPCC 01, the IEEE International Professional Communication Conference,
October 24-27, 2001 at historic La Fonda in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.
CALL FOR PAPERS OPEN UNTIL MARCH 15. http://ieeepcs.org/2001/
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