And, as the case may be, or

Just when you thought an expression couldn't get any worse than the lilly-livered and/or, the good people of the European Commission's crack drafting squad say HOLD MY BEER.

Behold: a novel, frightful, way of articulating the already gruesome expression "and/or":

Take out the virgule (the slash, / that unnecessary character) and replace it with as the case may be.

"and, as the case may be, or".

This is black-belt stuff, gang: this is nested flannel. A flannelette phase, (displaying a keening want of ontological certainty) embedded in a flannelette phrase that also displays profound ontological uncertainty]]. There’s a portal to the fourth dimension right there. An information superhighway right to the boredom heat-death of the universe.

Now I'm not sure this makes idiomatic, let alone legal, sense, but it appears 33 times in the AIFMD implementing regulations

See also

• And/or
• Virgule
• As the case may be

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