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laconic phrase
A laconic phrase or laconism is a concise or terse statement, especially a blunt and elliptical rejoinder.〔''Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Synonyms'', 1984, ''s.v.'' 'concise' (p. 172 )〕〔Henry Percy Smith, ''Synonyms Discriminated'' (1904) (p. 541 )〕
It is named after Laconia, the region of Greece including the city of Sparta, whose inhabitants had a reputation for verbal austerity and were famous for their blunt and often pithy remarks.
==Uses==
A laconic phrase may be used for efficiency (as in military jargon), for philosophical reasons (especially among thinkers who believe in minimalism, such as Stoics), or to better deflate a pompous individual (a famous example being at the Battle of Thermopylae).
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