The Idioms Exercise 5: A Study of the Obvious

Today, we're going to explore the most straightforward of all idioms: "The exception that proves the rule."

We're going to examine the paradoxical nature of this idiom, where something that's clearly an exception, somehow proves the very rule it's supposed to be an exception to.

Read the exceptional logic behind this idiom, and discover how it's used in real-world applications, such as:

• Baking
• Engineering
• Art