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"etymology_text": "Implying that one kills all one's enemies instead of capturing them.",
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"text": "It’s a rare thing to see a movie about science that takes no prisoners intellectually.",
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"To be uncompromising."
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"(idiomatic) To be uncompromising."
],
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"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to be uncompromising",
"word": "ne pas faire de prisonniers"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to be uncompromising",
"word": "ne pas faire de cadeaux"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to be uncompromising",
"word": "keine Gefangenen machen"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to be uncompromising",
"word": "nem ismer irgalmat"
}
]
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"Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see take, prisoner."
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"_dis1": "0 100",
"word": "no quarter"
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"etymology_text": "Implying that one kills all one's enemies instead of capturing them.",
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"text": "It’s a rare thing to see a movie about science that takes no prisoners intellectually.",
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"To be uncompromising."
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"(idiomatic) To be uncompromising."
],
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},
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"Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see take, prisoner."
],
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"translations": [
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to be uncompromising",
"word": "ne pas faire de prisonniers"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to be uncompromising",
"word": "ne pas faire de cadeaux"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to be uncompromising",
"word": "keine Gefangenen machen"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to be uncompromising",
"word": "nem ismer irgalmat"
}
],
"word": "take no prisoners"
}
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