Talk:say the quiet part loud

“out loud”

I’m starting to see the phrase “say the quiet part out loud” a lot more often lately (particularly in political reporting). —Will^(B) 18:42, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

It is, in fact, 36x more common, according to Google (24,700 results for ‘quiet part loud’, 908,000 results for ‘quiet part out loud’), even though it makes no sense. If you're saying something quietly, you're still saying it ‘out loud’. Planetjanet (talk) 23:15, 24 August 2023 (UTC)

I think the logic in the "out loud" version is that the "quiet part" is something that is left unstated or merely implied in normal discourse. --Geographyinitiative (talk) 11:06, 6 March 2024 (UTC)