no news is good news
NOH NOOZ iz GOOD NOOZ
noʊ njuːz ɪz ɡʊd njuːzListen
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the saying that the absence of information or updates about a situation, person, or outcome should be interpreted as a positive sign, since bad developments typically generate immediate communication while satisfactory states tend to pass without comment; the phrase reflects an asymmetry in the pattern of information flow, where crises and problems demand urgent notice while steady, uneventful progress goes unreported; it is used to reassure those waiting anxiously for news that silence from a distant party is more likely to indicate normalcy than to conceal disaster
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