Eli5: How does the phrase’Never say never’make sense when you are already asking to say never by using the word never?

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Eli5: How does the phrase’Never say never’make sense when you are already asking to say never by using the word never?

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Answer 1

“Never say never,” if used correctly, is a grammatical idiom. It breaks the rule of having two negatives in one sentence and is a statement of emphatic belief that what is true today may become false in the future, or vice versa.