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View definitions for no quarter

no quarter

noun as in short shrift

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While the Yankees' fielding and baserunning was occasionally sloppy, the Dodgers gave no quarter, and this final game exemplified how their injury-hit pitching staff collectively pulled together to help deliver the title.

From BBC

“I’ll say, on behalf of all the new guys ... we are the lucky ones,” he said, later adding, “The culture is already here … the culture here is work ... they ask no quarter, they give no quarter, they’re everything you want.”

It was an odd, violent screed in which Cotton called for “no quarter” in the context of a military incursion, which literally constitutes mass killing and a war crime—and it was undercut by ample documentation that police forces were far more responsible for fomenting street violence that summer than any unruly rioters were.

From Slate

Wednesday, one of those banners read “Give no quarter.”

“This whole rant by Trevian Kutti is a case study in witness intimidation and obstruction. All prosecutors in these election subversion cases must give no quarter when it comes to these antics and fully and swiftly enforce the law and the bond terms.”

From Salon

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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