What does it mean?
A cheeky "rule" that sounds logical but is really an excuse never to say sorry. Good people don't need an apology, and bad people will use it against you, so why bother?
Key vocabulary
- take a mean advantage of
- unfairly use something for their own benefit
Who said it?
P. G. Wodehouse: English comic novelist (1881–1975). Source: The Man Upstairs (1914).