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not that there's anything wrong with that

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Etymology

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Popularized as a catchphrase on the 1993 episode "The Outing" of Seinfeld.

Phrase

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not that there's anything wrong with that

  1. A signal phrase that one does not wish to offend when discussing a potentially contentious issue involving personal beliefs.
    Synonym: (initialism) NTTAWWT
    • 2003 November 16, Paul Morley, “Meet the Marxists”, in The Observer‎[1]:
      In the bizarro world of Pop Idol, this is true, everything he says is true, which makes him a kind of God. In the real world, tantalisingly just outside the reach of Pop Idol, it makes him a kind of clown. Not that there's anything wrong with that, as long as he doesn't get to make any more pop records.
    • 2012 March 2, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Friday, Mar 2, 2012:
      "You mean to tell me after all that...?" "I think she's just a little girl who thinks the boys at her school are smelly." "That's a relief. I mean, not that there'd be anything wrong with that, but -- wait, do lesbians have to say that?"
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