Name: English Tutor Nick P Proverbs (158) No News is Good News
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Hi this is Tutor Nick P and  this is Proverbs 158. The proverb today is no news

is good news.  Okay. Let's take a look at the note here.

To-infinitive

This proverb is basically used to express the idea that if no news or

information or updates have been received,  then everything is likely to be

going smoothly. All right.  Remember there is another proverb that

states bad news travels fast.  Therefore the idea is that there really ...

if there really is bad news,  you probably would have heard of it right away or you

will hear of it right away. Okay.  The origin of this proverb is believed

to come from the English King James the first in 1616. He had this quote, "No news

is better than evil news. " Well it's pretty close. No news is better than

really,  really bad news. So basically the idea is the same. No news therefore is

good news. Okay. And we give three examples of ways ,  of ways that we may hear

it used today. Let's look at the first one. The  first one is an a/b part. The first A

says,  that businessman was afraid that he might be audited after he turned in his

taxes six months ago. So far,  he has not heard from them.  Meaning from the tax

department. And you know B says,  well I guess no news is good news.

Well if he  hasn't been audited or anything yet,  then maybe everything is

okay. Maybe he has nothing to worry about.  Or number two. Her husband often goes on

long business trips overseas and he rarely contacts his wife until he

returns. She has come to realize no news is good news Well,  maybe he's done so

many of these trips that you know he's just concentrating on work and probably

he would only contact her if something was seriously wrong.

So in this sense she comes to realize that if she doesn't hear from him,  probably

everything is  going. Okay.  She's only likely to hear from him maybe

if there really is a serious problem.  Okay and number three here. If you have

not received a rejection letter yet,  basically. It means there is still a

chance.There is still a chance. So no news is good news. Well this could be a

number of things.  Maybe somebody sent in an application to

a university and they haven't heard back yet. You know,  so if  they didn't hear back

yet,  maybe,  maybe they may still get a letter that's you know,  good news. Or

maybe somebody you know, sent  in some manuscript to a book company and they

didn't hear anything back yet. So maybe there's still a chance. So sometimes we

use it that way. So no news is good news because at least they didn't hear any

bad news yet. Okay. Anyway,  I hope you got it I hope it was clear. Thank you for