COLUMN ONE Questions
Posted: November 8, 2009 at 3:38 a.m.
Why would anyone write “it goes without saying” if it really did? As in: “It goes without saying that Afghans have had enough of violence.”—Steve Coll in The New Yorker magazine’s “The Talk of the Town” column, October 26, 2009. If it goes without saying, why say it?
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