Rob Peter to pay Paul

The idiom rob Peter to pay Paul goes back at least 600 years, and possibly longer. We will look at the meaning of the phrase rob Peter to pay Paul, where it comes from and some examples of its use in sentences.To rob Peter to pay Paul means to take take money from one source […]
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