Suddenly, even though we own two elderly but functional Sears vacuum cleaners, I wanted a Dyson. It could have been an unusually informative Dyson commercial. It’s a cheap imitation Dyson, and they spent the first few minutes lavishly praising the real Dyson and its supposedly awesome virtues.
I saw a weirdly fascinating one for a vacuum cleaner the other day. I’ve been hearing the “without” version on stupid late-night infomercials. Dear Word Detective: I’ve got two questions for you: 1) where did the phrase “beyond a shadow of a doubt” come from, and 2) which is more correct, “beyond a shadow of a doubt” or “without a shadow of a doubt”? I believe the latter is not right, maybe because doubt probably casts a long shadow no matter what, so you want to be beyond that shadow.
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