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water is wet

1. (sarcastic) A statement of the obvious.
   • 2009, David Greven, Gender and Sexuality in Star Trek, →ISBN:We constantly “see” heterosexuality in Trek; to say that heterosexuality is explicit in Trek is to say that water is wet.
   • 2011, Chuck Wendig, Double Dead, →ISBN:"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.”
   • 2015, Katie Morris & Gad Chick, A Beginners Guide to Windows Surface, →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.

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Often used as a response when someone has stated something that is obvious.

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Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Cantonese: 阿媽係女人 / 阿妈系女人 (aa3 maa1 hai6 neoi5 jan4-2, literally “one's mum is a woman”) Polish: woda jest mokra Portuguese: please add this translation if you can Romanian: apa e udă Scottish Gaelic: cha suaicheantas corra air cladach (literally “a heron on a rocky shore is not a novelty”) Spanish: el agua moja

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• Captain Obvious
• does a bear shit in the woods
• dogs bark, cats meow
• fork found in kitchen
• is the Pope Catholic
• more at eleven, film at 11
• no shit, Sherlock
• people sit on chairs

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