give no quarter
Example Sentences
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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
These last brilliant stories by the late Miss O'Connor give no quarter to pity and seldom, even, to compassion.
From Time Magazine Archive
"They give no quarter, and they expect no quarter," says an official at the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency.
From Time Magazine Archive
To shades and nuances of selfishness, which men of high repute and comfortable conscience would neither be surprised to find in their neighbors nor annoyed to find in themselves, he would give no quarter.
From The Elect Lady by MacDonald, George
