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I have found one possible origin for this. In the early days of steam trains, the wind would blow the smoke and soot to one side of the tracks. The rich would live on the side away from the smoke, while the less well off would be left in the pollution. However I find a problem or two with this explanation. 1 - Surely the side of the track that the smoke went to would depend on wind direction. 2 - You woulod have thought that rich people would not want to set up house anywhere close to a dirty noisy thing like a railway. Another problem I have is that the same sourse indicated that the origins of 'Rule of thumb' is from an Eighteenth century English law that an husband could beat his wife with a stick as long as it was no thicker than his thumb. There was never any such law passed!
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