It Goes Without Saying

Full transcript as always:
Hello guys, this is Daniel (The Vocab Man) and the idea here is that you explain to us the expression "it goes without saying" Can you give an explanation in your own words?

And I thought I was coming to basically apologize, but I'm not apologize. You didn't come here to apalogize? That goes without saying, and I'm working on that, but I haven't been entirely upfront with you.

And I just, in fact, I want all the members of operation keynote to receive the congressional medal of honor, full citizenship for myself. Well, that goes without saying and I would like the United States of America to purchase property for me on Nantucket Island, as a reward for all the countless lives I've saved.

Eva: The expression, IT GOES WITHOUT SAYING, I think it's more or less the same as NEEDLESS TO SAY. It's used in reference to something that it's obvious, that we all know about it. Like in, "It goes without saying that we need to spend long hours using English if we want to speak and understand it without too much effort"

And what has been your favorite city to visit? Well, I always love coming home to New York, so of course that goes without saying, but it was a, it was very exciting to see how...

Eva: The thing is that I've never used this expression before, and I think it's more usual in formal situations as in political speeches or when someone is talking to an audience, to emphasize something that comes later in their talk: 'It goes without saying....blah, blah, blah'.

I think that goes without saying, but we need more than that too. We need....

yeah. Eva: Yeah,  but I think it could be useful in our day to day. Imagine that we have a friend whose car has broken down. We can tell him or her: 'It goes without saying that if you need my car while yours is being fixed, you can take it'

Or another example that could be familiar to most of us: a teacher saying in an exam "It goes without saying that if I get you cheating, automatically you'll get a zero.

Why aren't we all out there looking, we have the cars and we have to clear enough room so I can get the RV turned around as soon as it's running now that we have fuel, we can double back to a bypass Glenn flagged on the map by him, easier and try to get through this mess. We're not going anywhere till my daughter gets back. That goes without saying,

Eva: and Daniel, I'm curious about the reason you picked it, and if it's an expression that you use. What do you tell me?

Thank you so much, Eva, for all of your explanations. These were really great. And actually I haven't used the expression yet, but I want to use it more often. I came across that expression several times when watching series and then I just decided to cover it. on Fluent vocabulary. And I find it hilarious that an expression exists that explains something that should be obvious to all the world, but for some reasons there are things in life which have to be spoken out, nevertheless, even if it's obvious. So in a way it's not obvious and that's the reason.
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