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[[File:Or any part thereof.png|thumb|510px|right|Stick ''that'' in your pipe and smoke it, [[Counselor]]]]{{f|Or any part thereof}} is a piece of {{tag|flannel}} perfect for wiping clean the face of just the kind of cherub who would never get his little [[boat-race]] grubby in the first place. You know the kind: butter wouldn’t melt in his jumped-up little gob.
{{a|banned|{{image|Or any part thereof|png|Stick ''that'' in your pipe and smoke it, [[Counselor]]}}}}As pathologically as they abhor elegance, [[legal eagle]]s deplore a [[vacuum]], and if you’re the sort who believes that a sum does not include each of its parts taken individually, the work-a-day expression “{{f|Or any part thereof}}” is perfect for the pregnant pause you might otherwise have in your draft.


When it comes to face-washing, you may need a {{tag|flannel}}, but to state it baldly and without qualification omits the undeniable fact you may not need ''the whole thing''.  
It is also a satisfying way of “improving” the drafting of a those who themselves aggravate the [[negotiation]] process with leaden augmentations. We all know one<ref>Dammit we all know THOUSANDS.</ref>.  


Now, as pathologically as it abhors elegance, legal language deplores a vacuum, and if you’re the sort of [[Mediocre lawyer|attorney]] who believes that a sum does not include each of its parts taken individually, this work-a-day expression is perfect for the pregnant pause you might otherwise have in your draft.
However pedantic your adversary may be, in a long document he will be ''bound'' to have missed a clarifying construction somewhere. It will be a cinch to find it. And then, “, [[or any part thereof]]” — scrawled on a [[rider]], ideally, for dramatic effect — is your slam dunk; your dead fish shot in a barrel. You’ve got him.


It is also a satisfying way of “improving” the drafting of the sort of pernickety [[counselor]] who has been aggravating a [[negotiation]] process with leaden augmentations. We all know one<ref>Dammit we all know THOUSANDS.</ref>. However pedantic your adversary may be, in a long document he will be bound to have missed a simple construction somewhere. It is a simple matter to find it. And then, here is your slam dunk, your dead fish shot in a barrel — with this simple, and harmless unguent, you can at last have one over this cretinous fellow, appending it in the privacy of your own chambers with the lawyer’s flourish that, in other fields of endeavour, invites the expression “[[in your face|IN YOUR ''FACE'']]”, prompts a footballer’s swept-back wing fighter-jet impersonation or knee-slide to the corner flag, enables a baseballer’s serial high-five as he ambles past the dug-out, or a wide receiver’s flamboyant pimp-roll round the end-zone as he awaits his team mates' acclamation.
With this harmless, but spiteful, unguent, appended in the privacy of your own chambers with a lawyer’s flourish you can perform same pimp-roll that prompts a goal-scoring footballer’s [[Swept-back wing knee-slide|swept-back wing fighter-jet impersonation]]  to the corner flag or a baseballer’s serial high-five as she ambles past the dug-out.


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Latest revision as of 09:09, 17 December 2022

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As pathologically as they abhor elegance, legal eagles deplore a vacuum, and if you’re the sort who believes that a sum does not include each of its parts taken individually, the work-a-day expression “Or any part thereof” is perfect for the pregnant pause you might otherwise have in your draft.

It is also a satisfying way of “improving” the drafting of a those who themselves aggravate the negotiation process with leaden augmentations. We all know one[1].

However pedantic your adversary may be, in a long document he will be bound to have missed a clarifying construction somewhere. It will be a cinch to find it. And then, “, or any part thereof” — scrawled on a rider, ideally, for dramatic effect — is your slam dunk; your dead fish shot in a barrel. You’ve got him.

With this harmless, but spiteful, unguent, appended in the privacy of your own chambers with a lawyer’s flourish you can perform same pimp-roll that prompts a goal-scoring footballer’s swept-back wing fighter-jet impersonation to the corner flag or a baseballer’s serial high-five as she ambles past the dug-out.

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  1. ↑ Dammit we all know THOUSANDS.
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