as a rule | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic)In general; mostoften.We go fishing every Sundayas a rule, but today the lake is frozen.1907August,Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter II, inThe Younger Set, New York, N.Y.:D. Appleton & Company,→OCLC:His forefathers had been,as a rule, professional men—physicians and lawyers; his grandfather died under the walls of Chapultepec Castle while twisting a tourniquet for a cursing dragoon; an uncle remained indefinitely at Malvern Hill;[…].1918,William Strunk, Jr.,The Elements of Style:As a rule, single sentences should not be written or printed as paragraphs. An exception may be made of sentences of transition, indicating the relation between the parts of an exposition or argument.

Examples:

EN: Whereas, as a rule, day-in, day-out, I only consider my master's well-being!
ES: "¡Día tras día yo no hago otra cosa más que ocuparme del cuidado del Señor Consejero!"
EN: Well, as a rule it's against my principles, but I suppose on an occasion like this, one can relax such rules.
ES: Bueno, como regla, va en contra de mis principios, pero supongo que, en una ocasión como esta, bueno, uno puede atenuarlos.
EN: You know, Mr. Legrand, liaisons like that are dangerous at our age, and as a rule... they end badly.
ES: Verá, Sr. Legrand, son aventuras muy peligrosas a nuestras edades y que suelen... acabar mal.
EN: Women perfer him as a rule.
ES: Normalmente, las mujeres le prefieren.
EN: Well, as a rule, I leave it down at the dock in a pale of ice water.
ES: Por norma, suelo dejarlo en el muelle, en un cubo de agua helada.
EN: I'm afraid, as a rule, I prefer the company of men, particularly if they're bartenders.
ES: Por regla general, prefiero la compañía de los hombres, sobre todo si es un barman.
EN: Well, not as a rule.
ES: No, por lo general no.
EN: - No. Pretty swift about your undressing as a rule?
ES: - ¿Se desviste siempre tan rápido?
EN: I think as a rule they are, they are more versatile.
ES: Creo que por regla general son más versátiles.
EN: I don't as a rule, like them. But they're very pretty.
ES: No me gusta decirlo, pero son preciosas.
EN: I think I must have been quite as nervous as you at that moment and I'm anything but a nervous man as a rule.
ES: Creo que estaba tan nervioso como usted en ese momento y soy cualquier cosa menos un hombre nervioso.
EN: I abominate scent as a rule, but yours is different.
ES: Por norma no me gustan los perfumes, pero en tu caso es distinto.
EN: How far do you go, as a rule?
ES: ¿A qué extremos llegas, por principio?
EN: I don't as a rule, neck them.
ES: Por lo general, no los beso.
EN: Do you as a rule turn your suitors out hungry?
ES: ¿Generalmente echas a tus pretendientes hambrientos?

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