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wouldn't
[ wood-nt ]
- contraction of would not:
I wouldn't ask her.
wouldn't
/ Ë·ÉÊ»ćÉČÔłÙ /
contraction of
- would not
Usage Note
Idioms and Phrases
In addition to the idiom beginning with wouldn't , also see butter wouldn't melt ; caught dead, wouldn't be ; not (wouldn't) lift a finger . Also see under not .Example Sentences
"Philip wouldn't talk to Richard because he was so loyal to Sybil, Richard's first wife," said Angela.
"If it wasn't for the good of the country, he wouldn't have chosen martial law, where he would have to pay with his life if he failed," a pro-Yoon rally attendee, who gave only his surname Park, told the BBC.
âI was impressed because one tends to think of punk as almost a disposable commodity, if people are living too fast youâd think they wouldnât be preserving these things as they went along, and thereâs a tremendous amount of stuff that people did save, itâs filling up the walls here,â Washburn said.
âAll the fight, all everything we did last year, man, that was hard. I wouldnât be able to look at myself in the mirror if I wasnât there.â
"There is still a 96.2% chance that the asteroid will miss the Moon," Nasa said in a statement, noting that even if it did make impact, it wouldn't change the Moon's orbit.
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Idioms from The American HeritageŸ Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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