English-Finnish translations for rule of thumb

• nyrkkisääntö
  Tämä on kaiken uuden teknologian nyrkkisääntö. This is the rule of thumb for all new technology.
  Niihin pätevä nyrkkisääntö on seuraava: mitä juopuneempana ja mitä nopeammin ajetaan, sitä enemmän kuolonuhreja ja loukkaantuneita tulee. The following rule of thumb seems to apply: the more you have drunken and the faster you drive, the more people are killed and injured.
• peukalosääntö
  Sitä varten on kuulemma olemassa peukalosääntö. It appears that there is a rule of thumb for this purpose.
  Kyllä, jäsenvaltiot voivat arvioida, onko haavoittuvien kantojen kiintiöihin vakavaa vaikutusta, mutta sen ei pitäisi olla peukalosääntö. Yes, Member States can evaluate if there is serious impact on quotas of vulnerable stocks, but we should not let it be the rule of thumb.

Definition of rule of thumb

• A general guideline, rather than a strict rule; an approximate measure or means of reckoning based on experience or common knowledge
• Approximated, guesstimated

Examples

• The usual rule of thumb says that to calculate when an investment will double, divide 70 by the interest rate.
• I made a quick, rule-of-thumb estimate of the manhours required for the job.

Related words

• rule of the road
• rule of the law
• rule of three
• rules of the road
• rules of the game
• to rule something off