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take-no-prisoners

/teyk-noh-priz-uh-nerz, ‐priz-nerz/US // ˈteɪkˌnoʊˈprɪz ə nərz, ‐ˈprɪz nərz //

不畏强权,不畏艰险,严阵以待,严惩不贷

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : wholeheartedly aggressive; zealous; gung-ho: a businessman with a take-no-prisoners attitude toward dealmaking.

Examples

  • Yet this, in the end, is a book from which one emerges sad, gloomy, disenchanted, at least if we agree to take it seriously.

  • And now, similarly, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee: "Bend over and take it like a prisoner!"

  • ROME — What does it take for a Hollywood A-lister to get a private audience with Pope Francis?

  • Although Huckabee's condescending tone - like that of an elementary school history teacher - makes it difficult to take seriously.

  • Clickbait title notwithstanding, Bend Over and Take It Like a Prisoner!

  • I take the Extream Bells, and set down the six Changes on them thus.

  • Wycliffe translates the Vulgate: “And it as a modir onourid schal meete hym, and as a womman fro virgynyte schal take him.”

  • But it was necessary to take Silan, which the rebels hastened to strengthen, closely followed up by the Spaniards.

  • And this summer it seemed to her that she never would be able to take proper care of her nestful of children.

  • Then follows an account of the life of the Jesuit prisoners, in Virginia and England.