no dice
Example Sentences
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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
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