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Chris -- 2025-05-10
Found this one in a facebook comment today: a substitute for “goes without saying.”
Not much evidence of it elsewhere on the web. Just three hits where it’s clearly acting like an eggcorn; a couple others were the same phrase but not standing in for “goes without saying”.
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Kinda cool—it goes without staying that this is a way of really going, right? Some other things stay without going, that’s for sure.
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For us lazy ones, post a couple of examples with a bit more context, with a b-q-period marker before, like so:
It goes without staying that the ethnographer needs a command of this literature, to be able to engage it alongside his or her interlocutors.
We would stay in touch, it went without staying. Except we did not. I had chosen to run away from Nantes. I had found an internship in Hong …
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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