English Explanatory Dictionary

Healey's law

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. Synonym of law of holes.

Word forms

Healey's law Healey's first law of holes

Etymology

After Denis Healey (1917–2015), British politician, who used the adage from the 1980s onward.

Synonyms

law of holes
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