Exception Proves Rule
Commenters repeatedly use the idiom 'the exception that proves the rule' (or variations) to dismiss counterexamples and affirm general rules across diverse discussions.
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Perhaps the exceptions that prove the rule then.
That's the exception that proves the rule.
Talk about the exception that proves the rule, though!
Yup, exceptions that prove the rule.
yep the exception that proves the rule.
Well, there's always an exception to the rule. :-)
I'd consider that an exception that proves the rule
There's always an exception to the rule.
That's an exception, not the general rule.
Sure, there are always exceptions but they're only that, exceptions.