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> The number of engineers at Google Toronto is so small that they're the exception that proves the rule, though. Exceptions don't prove the rule.
by balfirevic 7y ago
> The number of engineers at Google Toronto is so small that they're the exception that proves the rule, though.
Exceptions don't prove the rule.
- selimthegrim 7y agoThe point of this idiom is that they end up not being exceptions at all.
- angry_octet 7y agoThat is not what I understand it to mean -- rather, the opposite. That is, finding an engineer at the Toronto office is so improbable that it is remarkable, hence you are reminded that it is normally an engineer free zone. There are some idioms that do mean it is unexceptional. You might be familiar with the Pratchettism "Million-to-one chances happen nine times out of ten."