Idiom
have none of something
Meaning
To be completely unwilling to accept or support something.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“My cat will have none of that expensive food.”
“I tried to explain why I was late, but my boss would have none of my excuses.”
“Despite the lawyer's passionate appeal for leniency, the judge would have none of it and delivered the maximum sentence.”
Examples
simple
“My cat will have none of that expensive food.”
contextual
“I tried to explain why I was late, but my boss would have none of my excuses.”
complex
“Despite the lawyer's passionate appeal for leniency, the judge would have none of it and delivered the maximum sentence.”
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