Meaning of 11th commandment | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A well-known convention (often the most well-known of a certain field) which supposedly can not or should not be broken.
   idiomatic
2. Alternative letter-case form of 11th commandment.
   alt-of

Examples

“A “hood,” he said, isn’t necessarily a neighborhood, adding that the same culture is seen on Wall Street, “where the 11th commandment is ‘Thou shalt not get caught.’ ””

“Some of the accused did not know Basil’s real identity; the others stuck by the old-school criminal’s 11th commandment, “Thou shalt not grass.””

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