Maybe not in so many words but pretty close!

FORBES: Missing: Gen Y

ECB-watchers and markets understand this, even though it has not been spelt out in so many words by Jean-Claude Trichet, the ECB's president.

ECONOMIST: Appraising the European Central Bank

He has not yet done that, in so many words.

ECONOMIST: Iraq and the UN

What they meant without saying so in so many words was why do the European policymakers not follow the obvious example of the U.S. policymakers.

FORBES: Fed Profits and Treasury Financing, the Good and the Bad