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The consequence pretending it was the plan all along.
means Something that develops as a natural, often unplanned result of something else — a branch growing out of the main trunk.
from Straightforward English compound: 'out' plus 'growth,' built in the 1800s on the pattern of things literally growing outward from a parent body — a sprout, a limb, a tumor. It was quickly borrowed for abstract use, describing ideas, movements, or consequences that sprang from some earlier stock, as if ideas had root systems too.
- literal sense
- Something that grows out, like a branch or tumor
- figurative sense
- A result framed as natural, not caused
- favorite habitat
- Corporate reports explaining away bad decisions
- sneaky trick
- Makes causation sound like evolution