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no more
[ noh mawr ]
adjective
- not any more:
When she had no more clean clothes, she finally decided to do the laundry.
noun
- not any more (of something):
We went back to buy another copy, but they had no more.
I’ll have no more of your backtalk!
- nothing else; nothing additional:
He said no more, but it was clear that he understood.
These allegations are mere malicious rumor and no more.
adverb
- not to any greater extent or degree:
It’s no more expensive to buy it ready-made than to make it yourself.
The author of this paper is no more a scientist than I am a Martian!
- no longer:
Cry no more, my friend, for we will see justice done.
You’re here at last, and I am lonely no more.
- never again:
With these words he galloped away and was seen no more.
- neither:
I never took to the fellow, I’m afraid—and no more did my wife.
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of no more1
Idioms and Phrases
- be no more, to be dead or gone; be no longer existing:
Let us drink to the memory of the ships and sailors that are no more.
- no more than, less than or equal to; a maximum of:
The assessment should take no more than 5–10 minutes of your time.
The pub is on your left, no more than half a mile down the road.
- say no more, (an exclamation expressing full agreement or understanding based on very little said):
“We’re on a budget.” “Say no more, ma’am, I know just the car for you.”
Example Sentences
In recent years, this space has repeatedly called for James to be traded, but no more.
In a crowning irony, even at the expense of 14.5 million lives lost, fully mechanized Soviet agriculture was no more efficient than the system it replaced.
To be considered for the reentry programs, individuals must have no more than 32 months — and no fewer than 60 days — before their earliest release date.
Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander has pledged to reduce the average waiting time to no more than seven weeks by summer 2026, a deadline the government had previously set for the end of 2025.
These elections are likely to result in real-life evidence of a political idea that's all the rage, that there's "fragmentation" among the public, the traditional voting blocs are no more.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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