How’s this for a hypocritically ironic idiom?

Practicing economy of language means axing wordy phrases like “in the vicinity of” and “at the present time” and . . . “economy of language.”

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    sarah mosley says:

    It probably also means dangling prepositions at the end of your sentences.

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