pruwyben@discuss.tchncs.de to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 22 days ago"With all due respect" could imply that no respect is due and therefore none is givenmessage-squaremessage-square11fedilinkarrow-up1199arrow-down16
arrow-up1193arrow-down1message-square"With all due respect" could imply that no respect is due and therefore none is givenpruwyben@discuss.tchncs.de to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 22 days agomessage-square11fedilink
minus-squareTheImpressiveX@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up61·22 days agoThat’s usually what people mean when they say that sarcastically.
minus-squarePhobosAnomaly@feddit.uklinkfedilinkarrow-up19·22 days agoAnother backhanded “positive action” comment is “I’m going to give that the attention it deserves” and nine times out of ten it will be absolute fucking rot so no, that’s going to the bottom of the list. Cheers though.
minus-squarepruwyben@discuss.tchncs.deOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up17·22 days agoSomehow that never occurred to me.
That’s usually what people mean when they say that sarcastically.
Another backhanded “positive action” comment is “I’m going to give that the attention it deserves” and nine times out of ten it will be absolute fucking rot so no, that’s going to the bottom of the list. Cheers though.
Somehow that never occurred to me.