American bacon drafting

American bacon drafting
/əˈmɛrɪkən ˈbeɪkən ˈdrɑːftɪŋ/ (n.)
Comedy legal drafting. Not necessarily from American legal eagles — though they do tend to be adept at it — but that resembles the sort of so-called “bacon” they sell you in America.

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American bacon drafting lives in the sort a contract that appears hefty — even fearsome — upon arrival but, upon first contact with the pan, dissolves to a shrunken crisp swimming in a sea of grease.

I mean no disrespect to my American friends: only your bacon.

See also

• U.S. Attorney