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Fortunately, there’s a ready-made defence. Expect a hasty plea to “[[take it offline]]” which, by tonal inflection, you might read as: | Fortunately, there’s a ready-made defence. Expect a hasty plea to “[[take it offline]]” which, by tonal inflection, you might read as: | ||
*(''benign'') | *(''benign'') “Let’s set aside some time to [[drill down]] into detail just the two of us, sort it out, and [[circle back]] with a bit more [[granularity]] later in the day”; or | ||
*(''neutral'') | *(''neutral'') “Ugh — let’s [[kick the can down the road]] and maybe something else will intervene<ref>Such as, ooh, I don’t know, the redundancy of the clot who asked that idiotic question?</ref> to mean we never have to figure out the answer to that”; or | ||
*(''hostile'') | *(''hostile'') “How about you just shut your cake-hole and let the [[change management]] [[workstream]] lead run the project, [[Counsel|counselor]]?” | ||
2. (''Informal''): [[Mediocre lawyer|Lawyer]] slang for “''You'' are a total moron”. | 2. (''Informal''): [[Mediocre lawyer|Lawyer]] slang for “''You'' are a total moron”. | ||
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