iron rule

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“The iron rule of Korean dramas is that ... you need to be able to empathize with the characters.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2022

So I’m gonna tell you the iron rule of family communication about politics: Do not try to change another family member.

From Slate • Oct. 18, 2020

Together, they are testing whether that iron rule for electoral survival and success across rural America still holds.

From New York Times • Apr. 11, 2018

Ryan was not swayed by the speeches and vowed to run the House with the same iron rule if the disruptions continue.

From Washington Post • Jun. 23, 2016

Also, the rail round the main-mast, and encircling both it and the pumps, furnished with belaying pins for the running rigging, though now obsolete under the iron rule.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir