Number Crunching
Comparing numerical figures relating to a current event with others that make the event seem comical/bizarre/despicable.
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Famous quotes containing the word number:
“One may confidently assert that when thirty thousand men fight a pitched battle against an equal number of troops, there are about twenty thousand on each side with the pox.”
—Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)