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A figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence, phrase, or larger discourse is surprising or unexpected in a way that causes the reader or listener to reframe or reinterpret the first part.
"He was at his best when the going was good." —Alistair Cooke on the Duke of Windsor[1] "There but for the grace of God—goes God." —Winston Churchill[1] "If I am reading this graph correctly—I'd be very surprised." —Stephen Colbert[10] "You can always count on the Americans to do the right thing—after they have tried everything else." —Winston Churchill[10] "On his feet he wore…blisters." —Aristotle[11] "I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it." —Groucho Marx[12] "A modest man, who has much to be modest about." —supposedly Winston Churchill, about Clement Attlee[12]
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