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{{f|Or any part thereof}} and its many variants is an elegantly redundant square 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, or chopping down trees in Canada, you may need {{tag|flannel}}, but to state it baldly and without qualification omits the undeniable fact you may not need ''the whole thing''. As pathologically as it abhors elegance, legal language hates 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 [[brushed-cotton]] 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>.  


Timber!
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.


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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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