Flouting a maxim is a particular salient way of getting an addressee to draw

an inference and hence recover an implicature (Grundy, 2000:78).

There are all sorts of reasons to flouts a maxim. Sometimes, one is faced
with a clash of maxims and chooses simply to drop one, sometimes one is not in a
position to say what the maxim requires, or is obliged to say something that the
maxim forbids. When someone flouts maxims, they do some rhetorical strategies.
They are tautology, metaphor, overstatement, understatement, rhetorical question
and irony.

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