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This tag is for questions about expressions. Expressions are words or phrases used to convey an idea, or else a particular term used conventionally to express something. Consider phrase-requests and expression-requests if you are looking for an expression, phrase-meaning if you are unsure about the usage of a given phrase.

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Success thanks to ignorance or inexperience

"Beginner's luck" is luck supposed to favor inexperienced people. In a corporate environment, "the Peter principle" describes being advanced until one is completely incompetent at the position.
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Less 'aggressive' phrasing/word for "ruthlessly remove unnecessary complexity" from requirem...

Cull complexity (for the ruthless connotations) Trim the requirements. Decimate complexity (also ruthless, but in the literal sense only paring down to 9/10, so maybe not as far reaching as you'd li …
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