Leather whip shortly for breaking rules (7)

Guardian Cryptic #28982 | 1 Down | 2023-02-01
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I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Fifteensquared have:

An envelope (‘for breaking’ – ‘for’ seems out of place and unnecessary) of ‘whi[p]’ minus its last letter (‘shortly’) in CODE (‘rules’).

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