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| Dec 22, 2018 at 0:39 | comment | added | Chappo Hasn't Forgotten | @FumbleFingers I'm not sure about "often" in such contexts - none of the given examples seem to fit this description. But certainly when such a context exists, oh-so- serves as a useful means of emphasising the sarcasm/scorn/joke. See my answer, which I wrote primarily to address the question of whether the expression has an element of sarcasm :-) | |
| May 22, 2011 at 9:56 | comment | added | deceze | I'd read the "oh-so-clever" sentence as "Paul Ryan thought his jab was very clever, but it was actually rather lame". | |
| May 22, 2011 at 4:13 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | Possibly because it's a somewhat 'quirky' idiom in the first place, oh-so often gets used in sarcastic / scornful / jocular contexts. | |
| May 22, 2011 at 4:02 | history | answered | Stephen | CC BY-SA 3.0 |