no quarter
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Yes, we'll tramp the streets to chap on doors on your behalf and post out leaflets with your face on, but if you become a liability or an opponent, no quarter will be given.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2023
From the award-winning author of “The Book of Goose” comes a collection of short fiction with unexpected power, though its economy is no surprise: Li’s elegant prose gives no quarter to the superfluous.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2023
David Friedman, Trump's former ambassador to Israel, said anti-Semites "deserve no quarter among American leaders, right or left."
From Reuters ● Nov. 27, 2022
According to Capt. Thomas Antoine Mauduit du Plessis, the French engineer leading the group, an American soldier shouted out, “Well now, is it agreed that no quarter will be given?”
From New York Times ● Aug. 8, 2022
When it comes, it gives no quarter and doesn’t care about your merits.
From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed
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