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TIL the phrase "the dog that didn't bark" is from Sherlock Holmes short story Silver Blaze: a dog in a barn does not bark when someone steals a race horse & Holmes infers whoever stole the horse was familiar with the dog. Common usage today means someone who knew about a crime and said nothing.

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