In sports this is the "absolute vote of confidence"
Once a coach has to say "[player] has my absolute confidence in their success," you know the player is ~2 weeks from being benched.
Once a coach has to say "[player] has my absolute confidence in their success," you know the player is ~2 weeks from being benched.
Similarly, you don’t ask tech companies if they’re doing layoffs when the sector is booming.
That the question is even asked probably shoots the probability of benching/layoffs up to some ridiculous amount to begin with.
Coaches and players... they talk about each other a lot.
https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=taoiseach%20has%20full...
Might be true in other countries but I'm old enough to see this pattern play out a few times.