Collateral damage is what happens when murder puts on a necktie in order to pass as necessity.
This definition is part of a series called The Comic's Wordbook that takes commonly used phrases and defines them according to the truth they are meant to conceal.
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A collection of jokes, riffs and observations used on stage, refurbished in the style of dictionary definitions and collected as The Comic's Wordbook.Sonya (Sonya Mathews)
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Aral Balkan
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A military term meaning that the dead were not important enough to have been intended.
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