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water is wet en · X

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Meanings

  1. (sarcastic) A statement of the obvious.
    • "You're a monster," Gil said, but his words were toothless, without the fire behind them that he'd previously stoked. Coburn shrugged. “And water is wet, old man.” 2011, Chuck Wendig, Double Dead, →ISBN:
    • For example, the computer desktop is meant to suggest a physical desktop, and files that contain folders are meant to remind users of plain old filing systems. This may seem like we're telling you that water is wet, but the pre-GUI days involved a lot of command line typing. 2015, Katie Morris & Gad Chick, A Beginners Guide to Windows Surface, →ISBN:
    • We constantly “see” heterosexuality in Trek; to say that heterosexuality is explicit in Trek is to say that water is wet. 2009, David Greven, Gender and Sexuality in Star Trek, →ISBN:

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Translations (9)

it scoprire l'acqua calda (Translations) · pl woda jest mokra (Translations) · ro apa e udă (Translations) · fr l'eau ça mouille (Translations) · it grazie al cazzo (Translations) · it scoprire l'America (Translations) · es el agua moja (Translations) · fi hauki on kala (Translations) · gd cha suaicheantas corra air cladach (Translations)