unspoken rule 潛規則

unspoken rule
繁:潛規則
简:潜规则

雖說「潛規則」人人懂,但有錢未必有用,除了送對人,還得有交情,「人脈存摺」這時就發揮效果了。

建商潛規則 編織官場貪腐網絡(2017年11月1日),中時電子報,取自http://www.chinatimes.com/newspapers/20171101000310-260106

Leung clearly broke an unspoken rule that a former chief executive should refrain from being a back-seat driver on the incumbent government’s policies, Choy added.

CY Leung: HK people must develop sense of national identity. (2017, November 7). EJ Insight. Retrieved from http://www.ejinsight.com/20171107-cy-leung-says-hongkongers-must-develop-sense-of-national-identity/