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rule of thumb

A rough and useful principle or method, based on experience rather than precisely accurate measures. For example, His work with the youth group is largely by rule of thumb . This expression alludes to making rough estimates of measurements by using one's thumb. [Second half of 1600s]
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/rule%20of%20thumb 

dying metaphors: fresh-cuts vs. short-cuts

The original Banned List was, of course, George Orwell’s in 1946: dying metaphors (“Examples are: Ring the changes on, take up the cudgel for, toe the line, ride roughshod over, stand shoulder to shoulder with, play into the hands of, no axe to grind, grist to the mill, fishing in troubled waters, on the order of the day, Achilles’ heel, swan song, hotbed”); verbal false limbs (“Characteristic phrases are render inoperative, militate against, make contact with, be subjected to, give rise to, give grounds for, have the effect of, play a leading part (role) in, make itself felt, take effect, exhibit a tendency to, serve the purpose of”); pretentious diction (“Words like phenomenon, element, individual (as noun), objective, categorical, effective, virtual, basic, primary, promote, constitute, exhibit, exploit, utilise, eliminate, liquidate”); and meaningless words (his examples included “class, totalitarian, science, progressive, reactionary, bourgeois, equality”).
And Orwell’s six rules hold good:

Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.
Never use a long word where a short one will do.
If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.
Never use the passive where you can use the active.
Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.
Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.

It should also be noted that the Committee has decreed that some phrases are compulsory.

blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/06/14/the-banned-list-top-100/

http://www.dailywritingtips.com/body-parts-as-tools-of-measurement/

English possesses several measurement words that derive from body parts.
cubit – from Latin cubitum, “the elbow.” A cubit was a measurement based on the forearm from elbow to fingertip. The exact length varied according to whose arm was being used and could be from 18 to 22 inches.
digit – In Latin, digitus could mean either “finger” or “toe.” The same is true of digit in modern English. People use the digits of their hands to count to ten. And just think, we imagine we’re so modern and up-to-date because we live in a Digital Age.
fathom – Old English faethm was “the length of the outstretched arm,” about six feet. Water depth is measured in fathoms. Miners use the term to describe an area equal to six square feet.
hairbreadth – According to the Online Etymology Dictionary, hairbreadth is said to have once been a formal unit of measure equal to one-forty-eighth of an inch.
hand – Originally, a “hand” was a measurement of three inches, but now it is four inches. This measurement is stil used to reckon the height of horses.
handful – This is an indeterminate quantity of some dry measure, such as grain, that can be held in the cupped hand. A Greek word for “handful” is the origin of the Greek coin called a drachma.
span – In Old English a span was “the distance between the thumb and little finger of an extended hand,” roughly nine inches. Again, it all depended on whose hand.
thumb was probably the basis of the measurement now called an inch. We don’t measure things in “thumbs,” anymore, but we do talk about thumbnail sketches and thumbnails in the sense of “small images.”
The expression rule of thumb probably originated with carpenters who used their thumbs to take rough measurements. The notion that the expression originated with a law permitting a husband to beat his wife with a stick “no larger in circumference than his thumb,” has no historical basis.

misunderstanding-not-illusion

icimden bi ses bu ici bos ajite ona boykot buna boykot refleksiyle oryantalizmin bu tip elestirisi arasinda bi benzerlik var diyo.
`activist-feminist` deki aktivist kelimesinden ayrica bi nem kapiyorum bu minvalde. sonra uzun, ve yanip yakinan sergi metni...zor bu sularda dolanmak, eyvallah da, ironiyse bu ironi degil, elestiriyse, yok ona da benzemiyor. yeni bir `genre` doguyor, korlestirerek, sagirlastirarak mevzuyu.
bu kadar rahatsizsak kategorilerden bu kadar rahat yeni isimler bulmamiz kendimize bana tuhaf geliyor. hani o durustaki kendini bilir, hanim agasi tavir bu mu bitirecek, yerle yeksan edecek oryantalizmi.
belki de sadece sirtimizi donmemiz lazim, birakalim kendi fantazi dunyalarinda hayal edip dursunlar. biz baska seylerden konusalim artik. baskalarinin bizi nasil algiladigindan daha baska meselelerimiz olsun.
o detone, a-senkronize meydan mesaisini meydanda yapalim icab ederse.


http://www.art-agenda.com/shows/canans-turkish-delight-at-x-ist/