Well, like I said -- bears shit in the woods, the Pope is Catholic, and the sun rises in the east:
Actually, I more or less agree with Scalia in an abstract legal sense -- I don't think there...
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Well, like I said -- bears shit in the woods, the Pope is Catholic, and the sun rises in the east:
Actually, I more or less agree with Scalia in an abstract legal sense -- I don't think there...
And, incidentally, we also say "Is the Pope Catholic?" and/or "Do bears shit in the woods?", but these are in response to questions with a very obvious "Yes" answer, not statements or predictions:
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The phrase itself is a rudely sarcastic (and also vulgar) reply to any self-evidently obvious statement or suggestion or prediction. As a mixed-language example of usage, here's a passage from...
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