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ask no questions and you'll be told no lies

It is a quote by Charles Dickens that is used to reply to a question with an answer best kept untold.
The quote has been shortened to "ask no questions hear no lies" in modern use by people who do not know the origin of the quote.
Professor: How far along are you with that assignment, Peter?
Peter: Ask no questions and you'll be told no lies, Professor.
Professor: Ah, Charles Dickens. Alright then, we'll just forget about the assignment for now. I will not accept any work given to me after the hand-in date, remember that.
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Somebody once told me the world is gonna roll me 

I aint the sharpest tool in the shed,

She was looking kinda dum..
Shreck: *Opens Door*

Everyone : Somebody once told me the world is gonna roll me

got told 

When you have been told off or insulted, you have been "got told".
Person: Boy, you better not come around here again or I'll beat your butt up.

Random People: OHHHHHHH, GOT TOLD!
got told by renthead722 June 1, 2006

I-told-you-sorgasm 

The intensely pleasurable feeling a doomsayer gets when saying "I told you so," often accompanied by a long rant pontificated with various enthusiastic gesticulations.
Doomsayer: Hahahahaha I told you the economy would crash!
Random Acquaintance: Woah, dude, don't have an I-told-you-sorgasm.

somebody told me 

The first hit single by the band 'The Killers', off of their album 'Hot Fuss'. Said album was released in 2004.
Somebody told me, that you had a boyfriend, that looked like a girlfriend, that I had in Feburary of last year.
somebody told me by Jess February 19, 2005

Somebody once told me the world was gonna roll me i aint the sharpest tool in the shed she was looking kind of dumb with her finger and her thumb in the shape on an l on her forehead.

The first song of the verse "All Star" by "Shrek: The Movie"
Somebody once told me the world was gonna roll me i aint the sharpest tool in the shed she was looking kind of dumb with her finger and her thumb in the shape on an l on her forehead.
ORly bro

Jimmy told me

Without merit. Words preceding a falsehood or flagrant exaggeration.

Adhering to the character of the teller, statements beginning with "Jimmy told me" can be assumed to be fallacious and self-serving.
P: But "Jimmy told me" that: Martians are real, Liverpool won, his penis isn't tiny.

S: How did you start that sentence?

P: Jimmy told me.....shit man!
Jimmy told me by frenchpaul December 12, 2010