according to Hoyle according to plan or the rules.
☞ Edmond Hoyle (1672–1769) wrote a number of authoritative books about whist and other card games; his name, at first synonymous with expert opinion on card games, became a metaphor for the highest authority in all fields.
1989Tom BodettThe End of the Road His divinely inspired plan had gone exactly according to Hoyle. He'd fooled them.