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Saying the quiet part loud, but wearing a trench coat and sunglasses.
means An indirect remark that hints at something (often risqué or critical) without stating it outright.
from Straight from Latin innuendo, meaning 'by nodding at,' from innuere — 'to nod toward, signal to.' It started life as a dry bit of legal Latin, used in documents to mean 'that is to say' or 'meaning thereby' — pointing at the specific, often scandalous, thing a document was really about without spelling it out. The nod became a wink, and by the 1600s it had slipped into English as a word for the insinuation itself.
- etymology
- from latin for by nodding toward
- plausible deniability
- lets you mean it and deny it
- comedy's backbone
- sitcoms ran on it before streaming censors noticed
- queen power ballad
- also a 6-minute bohemian rhapsody sequel