don't ask

Idioms  

1. A phrase used to fend off questions about a situation one finds awkward, unpleasant, or unsatisfactory. For example, How did we do in the bridge tournament? Don't ask! [Colloquial; 1960s] For a similar phrase, see forget it.

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Example Sentences

But that’s basically it and if I don’t ask, he doesn’t check in.

From MarketWatch

I sometimes end up in an Apple Store, don’t ask me how or why.

From Los Angeles Times

Don’t ask me how, but I knew it instantly at a bone-deep level, but because I’d have to give a concrete reason for the identification in my debriefing, I took the extra half second to identify where she’d gone wrong.

From Literature

Like always, she was caught up in her own little world, and don’t ask me why, but it was too much that day.

From Literature

One thing I learned as a Wall Street Journal reporter covering Alan Greenspan’s 18-year reign of the Federal Reserve: Don’t ask the man a question when you’re in a buffet line with coffee in one hand, a plate in the other, and a reporter’s notebook in your back pocket.

From Barron's