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rob·bing pe·ter to pay paul
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Robbing Peter to Pay Paul
An expression derived from the following circumstance:--By Royal Letters Patent, dated 17th December 1540, the abbey church of St Peter, Westminster, was constituted a cathedral, with a resident bishop. Ten years afterwards this order was revoked, the diocese of Westminster being united to that of St Paul’s Cathedral, and its revenues were granted towards the repairs of the city fane; hence what was taken away from St Peter’s went to benefit St Paul’s.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of robbing peter to pay paul in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of robbing peter to pay paul in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
Examples of robbing peter to pay paul in a Sentence
As a result of that, organizations who are in areas where cholera has broken out have had to use resources that they would have otherwise programmed for something like food insecurity or malnutrition, what we are doing right now is robbing Peter to pay Paul.
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