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{{a|plainenglish|[[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|plainenglish|[[File:Or any part thereof.png|thumb|510px|right|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''.
 
Now, 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, this work-a-day expression 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<ref>Dammit we all know THOUSANDS.</ref>.  
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>.  

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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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