give no quarter
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What would it look like to express those concerns and those grievances while also making it explicitly clear that you give no quarter to these people?
From Slate ● May 18, 2022
Roth would give no quarter to such claims nor to the implication that an artist carries some extra-moral burden to defend the public image of his ethnic identity.
From Washington Post ● May 23, 2018
"They give no quarter, and they expect no quarter," says an official at the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency.
From Time Magazine Archive
And, of course, there is that infamous Apollo audience, an orchestra and two balconies bursting with folks who give no quarter.
From Time Magazine Archive
The commander pretended to have received information that Pulaski had ordered his men to give no quarter, but this was false.
From Life and Times of Washington, Volume 2 Revised, Enlarged, and Enriched by John Frederick Schroeder
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