give no quarter
Example Sentences
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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
These last brilliant stories by the late Miss O'Connor give no quarter to pity and seldom, even, to compassion.
From Time Magazine Archive
That they would give no quarter was what everyone supposed.
From George Alfred Henty The Story of an Active Life by Fenn, George Manville
