Don't Presume Asked by one of his fellow candidates if he would commit to choose a pro-life running mate, George W. Bush replied, "I think it's incredibly presumptive for someone who has yet to earn his party's nomination to be picking vice presidents".
He hadn't asked me to, and I hadn't presumed to ask him if he wanted me to.
Journalists who presumed to ask what Bill Murray's character whispers in her ear at the end of the film could bank on an acidic dismissal: "Oh, you think you're the first one to ask?" she replied to one reporter.
"But that a government, something that we elect, something that should be looking out for our best interests, should presume without asking to take information that we swap, we hope privately, between ourselves is frankly disgraceful".
No one would presume to ask me to eat nonkosher.
Ever thoughtful, Iain didn't presume, but asked permission to dedicate his novel Inversions to me.
"DOES Microsoft still have a big, hairy audacious goal?" Not everybody would presume to ask Bill Gates a question like that.
Looking at the phone prior to buying it and noticing it was a sealed device was would also appear to have been a difficult task for Mr Trujillo; perhaps it needed a sticker warning of the fact, something along the lines of "Presuming nothing, ask questions first" or "Not to be purchased by people chasing a quick buck and 15 minutes of fame".
But don't presume; actually ask him for his preferences.
The silver dollar had provided the obvious opening, and I had presumed someone would ask it then.
JN A You don't say how long the remaining term of your mortgage is, but I presume you are asking about spreading the loan across a longer repayment period.
