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Marketing - Advertising / Public Relations | | English term or phrase: honoured in the breach | | We herald our professional codes but as we have seen in the United States alone these codes are often wantonly honoured in the breach . |
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18 mins confidence:  peer agreement (net): +1 honorado por la infracción
Explanation:
Meaning
This is usually thought to mean a rule which is more often broken than observed. The context of the play shows the real meaning as 'it is more honourable to breach than to observe'.
Origin
From Shakespeare's Hamlet, 1603:
HAMLET Ay, marry, is't:
But to my mind, though I am native here
And to the manner born, it is a custom
More honour'd in the breach than the observance.
La Declaración Global del Compromiso que resulta parece de ser honorada por la infracción. Julio, Primera conferencia patrocinada por la IAS (Sociedad ...
www.aidsinfonyc.org/tag/taglines/0304esp.html
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