"You do the math."

Jonathan Lighter wuxxmupp2000 at YAHOO.COM
Sun Nov 12 03:03:20 UTC 2006


As everyone must know by now, this clever postpositive saying means "The conclusion I draw from these figures would be absurdly obvious to one who's not a nitwit."

  An "early" ex.:

  1991  rec.sport.baseball (Usenet) (Jan. 11)   http://groups.google.com/group/rec.sport.baseball/msg/67d25287f32566d8 : Davis average 30+ HR's in the cavernous Astrodome, and now he's got only about 290ft.(?) down each line.  You do the math.

  JL


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