1. Queensberry rules - Phrase
2. Queensberry rules - Proper noun
Queensberry rules
A code of rules governing professional and amateur boxing, published in 1867 and endorsed by the ninth Marquess of Queensberry.
And if I catch you and my son again in any public restaurant I will thrash you" to which Wilde responded: "I don't know what the Queensberry rules are, but the Oscar Wilde rule is to shoot on sight". Source: Internet
In contrast, at this time in England (the home of boxing and the Queensberry rules ), kicking was seen as unsportsmanlike. Source: Internet
Rules main The Marquess of Queensberry rules have been the general rules governing modern boxing since their publication in 1867. Source: Internet