Phrase guide
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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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phrase
Nothing is going on; everything is under control; it is business as usual (suggesting that important information is being covered up).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Internet
Qualifier: occasionally sarcastic
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
From the episode "City of Walls and Secrets" of the American animated television series Avatar: The Last Airbender, aired on September 22, 2006, in which the corrupt officials of the city Ba Sing Se try to keep order by hypnotizing citizens to believe that "there's ^([sic]) no war in Ba Sing Se", even as the city is being besieged.
