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Captain Obvious

A person who makes a statement or statements of such obvious meaning or implication as to be entirely redundant, superfluous, or unnecessary. Pauline: "The President has said that lower-class families are bearing the brunt of the recession worse than anyone else." Johnny: "Thank you, Captain Obvious!" A: "Your photos are out of focus because you didn't adjust the lens properly." B: "Wow, Captain Obvious strikes again!"
See also: captain, obvious

from the Department of the Bleeding Obvious

Of such an obvious meaning or implication as to be completely redundant, superfluous, or unnecessary. Primarily heard in UK, Australia. Pauline: "The Prime Minister has said that lower-class families are bearing the brunt of the recession worse than anyone else." Johnny: "Wow, any other riveting news from the Department of the Bleeding Obvious?"
See also: bleeding, department, obvious, of
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These are two obvious ways Brexit has influenced the situation.
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The UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) analysed passwords belonging to accounts worldwide that had been breached and found that the most obvious was the most used password, CNN reports.
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It was also a significant improvement on when the data was last published for 2014/15, when 16.9% of five-year-olds in Surrey had obvious decay.
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Even before Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain's decent individual effort, it had still been painfully obvious.
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A quick look at my notes from the worryingly pedestrian first episode of the final series of Downton Abbey: The opening fox hunting scene - obvious (and pitiful) attempt to whip up controversy on social media.
NOTHING TO BE ABBEY ABOUT
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NOTHING TO BE ABBEY ABOUT
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The lads will decide about the July Cup but it looks the obvious thing for him."
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Oman's government is looking closely at cutting costly subsidies, with petrol an obvious target, the minister for financial affairs said, as the country grapples with rising pressure on its public finances.The Gulf Arab sultanate ramped up state spending by more than 27 per cent from 2011 to 2013.
Oman to cut fuel subsidies, to curb spending
Today three very pathetic goals were conceded." Di Canio added: "It's obvious that it hurt me and everybody, even more because when you concede goals like we conceded today it's obvious you can't be happy because there is a job to do.
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Finally, many forms of non-obvious warfare present no personal risk to war fighters--which it would have to, almost by definition, since the capture or identification of the perpetrator may make the source of the attack obvious. But one cannot conclude that states that employ such war fighters are off the hook just because their war fighters are.
The specter of non-obvious warfare
www.examiner.co.uk THE Obvious Corporation does anything but the obvious.
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