I find as a general rule that when someone says "suffice to say" it usually doesn't.
Yep. It's a phrase that has the same sort of role in life as "With all due respect", isn't it? Or (the US Frightwing broadcaster) Rush Limbaugh's "I have the statistics right here in front of me", which indicates definitively that he's about to start pulling some bogus figures out of his . . . er, out of thin air.
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Date: 2012-01-04 02:13 pm (UTC)I find as a general rule that when someone says "suffice to say" it usually doesn't.
Yep. It's a phrase that has the same sort of role in life as "With all due respect", isn't it? Or (the US Frightwing broadcaster) Rush Limbaugh's "I have the statistics right here in front of me", which indicates definitively that he's about to start pulling some bogus figures out of his . . . er, out of thin air.