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As of September 2017, a brand new {{tag|buzzword}} alert: "[[parable]]". 

'''Context''': "are you framing this<ref>For example successfully executed pledge structure, for example,</ref> as a [[parable]] to draw from for this new transaction?" 

'''Meaning''': parallel, analogy, comparison.

Bonus point for being [[:category:Religious buzzwords|biblical]]. But also for sheer degree of difficulty. This takes you right to the knife edge of mockery: You must to deliver with whole-hearted conviction, certitude and a self-confidence which is beyond most non-Americans, lest your conversational partner collapses in laughter.

:''“I’m reminded of the parable of the nine virgins. Eight of them were wise, and used their tin-openers diligently, but the ninth was a clumsy, loud-mouthed virgin who kept wittering on abou —”''
:::—The Very Reverend Andy Simpson, [[Not The Nine O’Clock News|NTNOCN]]

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*{{tag|Religious buzzwords}}
*[[Sing from the same hymn sheet]]
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