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Reader question: Please explain “there’s no two ways about it” in the following: Soft drinks are not good for children. There’s no two ways about it. My comments: Soft drinks are not good for children? Really? I thought they are not good for everyone, be they 8 months, 8, 18 or 80 years old. But anyways it is true: Soft drinks are not good for children. And there really is no two ways about it. Soft drinks, you see, are essentially bubbly water full of human-added chemicals (either to enrich the flavor or to prolong its shelf life). Most of them are full of sugar, which is bad. The sugar is often artificially made, which is worse. Anyhow, “no two ways about it” is an idiom that literally means there’s “NO TWO (different) WAYS to talk ABOUT IT.” This expression is used as an emphasis to a previously made statement, emphasizing what someone has just said is true. American country singer Pam Tillis once sang a song of this title: No Two Ways About It. I walked into the club last night I hadn’t been there for so long Thinking foolishly I might find you sitting all alone But oh, how dreams lie When she put her arms around you And I watched you close your eyes Ain’t no two ways about it, something here had changed Ain’t no going back now to that same old same | 
