ACCORDING TO HOYLE


Meaning of ACCORDING TO HOYLE in English

-ˈhȯil, -ȯi(ə)l phrasal

Usage: usually capitalized H

Etymology: after Edmond Hoyle †1769 Eng. writer and authority on games, whose treatises, especially on whist (1742), became famous

: in agreement with standard practice or rules : in conformity with accepted usage or with an accepted procedure or system : conventionally

playing the game according to Hoyle

the girl did not behave according to Hoyle — Maude Hutchins

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