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in no uncertain terms
Idioms and Phrases
Emphatically, definitely so. For example, Jane told them in no uncertain terms that she wanted no part of their practical joke . The double negative in this idiom serves for emphasis. [Mid-1900s] Also see in so many words .Example Sentences
He took out an ad in the New York Times back in 1987, expressing all of this in no uncertain terms, and has not changed his rhetoric at all except to add more countries to his list of grievances.
The irregularity is almost undoubtedly a result of Sodroski’s script, which is, in no uncertain terms, a mess.
But his panic only intensifies when Victoria makes it known, in no uncertain terms, that she’d rather die than live a potential life of poverty: “I just don’t think, at this age, I’m meant to live an uncomfortable life. I don’t have the will.â€
Early on, the Heartbreakers’ first manager, Elliot Roberts, laid it out in no uncertain terms: Petty would receive 50% of the profits and the band would split the other half.
Shot in saturated primary colors, the visual of the song finds her seducing both the camera and her dancing partner in no uncertain terms.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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