fact = "idea; notion"

[Jonathan Lighter]

Impartially refereeing a discussion about whether it's good to give traffic tickets to drivers involved in a highway pile-up, a _Fox & Friends_ anchor remarked just now,

  "She's siding with the fact that it adds insult to injury."

  JL



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