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give no quarter





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What would it look like to express those concerns and those grievances while also making it explicitly clear that you give no quarter to these people?

From Slate May 18, 2022

Roth would give no quarter to such claims nor to the implication that an artist carries some extra-moral burden to defend the public image of his ethnic identity.

From Washington Post May 23, 2018

Ten full-tilt rock tunes that give no quarter.

From Time Magazine Archive

These last brilliant stories by the late Miss O'Connor give no quarter to pity and seldom, even, to compassion.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is their class which has to fight hardest for life in Europe, and they give no quarter to those above or below them.

From Venetian Life by Howells, William Dean




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