What do English people call the old wooden yardsticks that folded up onto itself to 6inch final lengthI believe it's a "yardstick", no less, choupette
Occurs to me that a
rule of thumb is really a
ruler of thumb, and the important thing is that it
is an inexact measurement, approximation, "near as dammit" thing. If you had the same carpenter/builder constructing something in its entirety, you could use the size of their extremities as measurements without everything going pear-shaped (
non-Brit equivalents, folks?) - but once there is more than one person involved in the construction, you simply
have to standardise.
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