Meaning of lapalissade | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Alternative letter-case form of lapalissade.
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2. An obvious, self-evident truth, especially humorously so; a tautology or truism.

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Examples

“In a certain way our theory is so obvious that it appears to us as a “lapalissade”. The cell is a network of phospholipid membranes and one of their chief functions is to keep certain substrates and enzymes apart.”

“Despite their affection for Gavarni, they dismissed as a lapalissade his oft-repeated statement that science had killed the notion of God”

“His display of the virtues Dickens has popularized is a real fraud. Nothing can show that he wants to abide by them. That he only loves himself is a lapalissade.”

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