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no dice





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Of course, some culinary pros still say no dice.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 24, 2025

If we wanted in on the powerful feelings that must have been swirling within each of them during such an exchange, or a nod to the momentousness of the moment — no dice.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 20, 2025

Lauder wanted to station the car outside the Neue Galerie for the run of the show, but no dice.

From New York Times • Dec. 1, 2022

I pleaded with my nurse practitioner to let me take it off at night, but she said no dice.

From Washington Post • Jun. 19, 2022

Except of course for the opal-haworthia plant, which Seven had been trying for years to grow just for its invisibility properties, but no dice.

From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega