If you feel the need to preface a thought spoken aloud with, “With all due respect…,” then I’ll assume no respect is actually being given to the person you’re speaking to/about.
If you feel the need to preface a thought spoken aloud with, “With all due respect…,” then I’ll assume no respect is actually being given to the person you’re speaking to/about.
That kind of falls in the same category of “No offense, but…”
Exactly!