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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''. | 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 | 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 the sort of pernickety [[counselor]] who has been aggravating a [[negotiation]] process with leaden augmentations. We all know one<ref>Dammit we all know THOUSANDS.</ref>. However pedantic your adversary may be, in a long document he will be bound to have missed a simple construction somewhere. It is a cinch to find it. And then, here is your slam dunk, your dead fish shot in a barrel — with this harmless unguent, you can at last have one over this cretinous fellow, appending it in the privacy of your own chambers with the lawyer’s flourish that, in other fields of endeavour, invites the expression “[[in your face|IN YOUR ''FACE'']]”, prompts a footballer’s [[Swept-back wing knee-slide|swept-back wing fighter-jet impersonation]] or [[Knee-slide and jet wings|knee-slide to the corner flag]], enables a baseballer’s serial high-five as he ambles past the dug-out, or a wide receiver’s flamboyant pimp-roll round the end-zone as he awaits his team mates’ acclamation. | It is also a satisfying way of “improving” the drafting of the sort of pernickety [[counselor]] who has been aggravating a [[negotiation]] process with leaden augmentations. We all know one<ref>Dammit we all know THOUSANDS.</ref>. However pedantic your adversary may be, in a long document he will be bound to have missed a simple construction somewhere. It is a cinch to find it. And then, here is your slam dunk, your dead fish shot in a barrel — with this harmless unguent, you can at last have one over this cretinous fellow, appending it in the privacy of your own chambers with the lawyer’s flourish that, in other fields of endeavour, invites the expression “[[in your face|IN YOUR ''FACE'']]”, prompts a footballer’s [[Swept-back wing knee-slide|swept-back wing fighter-jet impersonation]] or [[Knee-slide and jet wings|knee-slide to the corner flag]], enables a baseballer’s serial high-five as he ambles past the dug-out, or a wide receiver’s flamboyant pimp-roll round the end-zone as he awaits his team mates’ acclamation. | ||