Cassandra ClareI thought you came down right on the side of go directly to jail, do not pass Go, do not collect two hundred dollars.
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This is a very provocative statement by the man who was responsible for setting up the letter bomb plot. Note that he did not say, “I thought you went directly to jail, did not pass Go, did not collect two hundred dollars.” That would have been ambiguous. This is an example of how he cleverly used the double negative to imply that the defendant actually did go directly to jail, did not pass Go, did not collect two hundred dollars.
Source: City Of Ashes
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