to go without saying
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3.9
- idiom
- Informal
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darse por sentado
- It goes without saying that a good education is important for success.
- almost goes without saying
- perhaps goes without saying
- such work goes without saying
And, and it is, it goes without saying, but it is incredibly, incredibly important.
- And, and it is, it goes without saying, but it is incredibly, incredibly important.
- And it kind of goes without saying that they, you know, condemn the slaughter of Jews.
- So if you find yourself in Peru wanting to visit Lake Titicaca, I think it goes without saying, you should come stay with Louise.
- So you just, it can go without saying that you don't agree with this person and you're not platforming them to signal boost their, their views.
- I think it goes without saying that the cruise industry and the airline industry is getting spanked real hard by this panic.
- This is, of course, goes without saying.
- Now, it should go without saying based on true story jokes based on a true story.
- This next one goes without saying and it's kind of woven throughout all of this video and that's communication.
- You've got neurons that represent where things are and sort of goes without saying that those same neurons map to our emotional attachments.
Examples
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And it goes without saying that this was probably one of the most fun projects I've worked on in a long while.
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And, of course, it goes without saying...
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Now, I mean, it goes without saying that these are questions that it's impossible for us to try to answer, certainly now.
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So B, you know, obviously goes without saying, B, be really careful with the equipment.
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I hope that goes without saying.
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Yeah, obviously, that goes without saying.
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Look, I know that this goes without saying.
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Look, it goes without saying, leave it a few days before you call this girl.
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I think that pretty much goes without saying.
Fiction book (1995) -
Perhaps all of this goes without saying, but acknowledgment may be easier than practice.
Academic text (1997)
Antonyms
How Obvious
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning can be partially inferred from the parts: 'go' (come to be) plus 'without' (absence) and 'saying' (stating) yields the idea that something becomes such that it does not need to be said. However, the construction is idiomatic in usage and the role of 'go' is somewhat abstract, so a B1 learner may need some exposure despite the cross-linguistic parallels that aid comprehension.
Etymology
Go without saying may come from the image of a fact that seems to go around a room without anyone saying it. Everyone knows it already, so the phrase means 'obvious' or 'does not need to be said'.