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no ifs or buts
Idioms and Phrases
Also, no ifs, ands, or buts . No reservations, restrictions, or excuses, as in You'd better be there tomorrow, and no ifs, ands, or buts about it . This expression uses the conjunctions to stand for the conditions and objections that they introduce. The earliest phrase to appear was ifs and ands in the 1600s. This phrase is actually an emphatic redundancy, for and often meant “if.†But was tacked on to this pair soon afterward.Example Sentences
“I have been clear, now and then, with all that have contacted me I am against this proposal. No ifs or buts,†he said.
Katie Price has arrived at court to be questioned over her bankruptcies after being warned by a judge that she must attend with "no ifs or buts".
Ms Price is due in court on 27 August over her finances and was told to attend "no ifs or buts" by a judge earlier this month.
Katie Price has been warned by a judge she must attend a further court hearing with "no ifs or buts", after she was arrested at Heathrow Airport.
Deputy Insolvency and Companies Court Judge Daniel Schaffer set a further hearing for 27 August, telling Ms Price: “You have to attend that date, no ifs or buts, no going abroad, no holidays.â€
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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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