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An aside, like sotto voce, but spoken loudly enough that the person who is the subject can hear it, unlike sotto voce.
He spoke to them about me, but in a faux sotto voce for me to overhear: "Somebody doesn't know their place."
An aside, like sotto voce, but spoken loudly enough that the person who is the subject can hear it.
Note: There is no synonym that I'm aware of.
When he said "someone doesn't know their place!", he didn't say it sotto voce, but sotto-sotto voce, loud enough for all to hear.
Like sotto voce (commenting softly so that the third-person subject of the comment cannot hear the comment),
but spoken loudly with the intention that the third-person subject will hear that he is being spoken about.
A reversal of sotto voce: sotto-sotto intended to mean a loud voice.
Person 1 speaking to person 2 with person 3 in ear-shot (the subject of the remark):
In sotto-sotto voce: "Someone doesn't know their place!"
Assertion: vegetarianism is the best.
Reverse Godwin's Law response: Hitler was a vegetarian allegedly.
Assertion: Biden/Trump love sweets (which must be good).
Reverse Godwin's Law response: Hitler loved sweets according to Volker Ullrich
An unstated conclusion.
A counterpart to enthymeme: an unstated premise.
My phone's battery is almost dead. I have a meeting in an hour.
The metameme is the unstated conclusion that I should find a charger for my phone.
Sometimes the conclusion is an unpleasant or unflattering conclusion that the speaker doesn't wish to convey directly:
You've lost weight! You look so much better now.
Metameme: you were overweight and unattractive before.