not take no for answer

1. see take no for an answer.

Example Sentences

“They simply would not take no for answer,” Clinton said of women who pushed male leaders to make and keep the Good Friday accord that Bill Clinton counts as a signature achievement of his presidency.

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One, an American woman with a celebrity Chinese husband, did not take no for answer: She won public support and ended up winning a divorce in a highly publicized court case.

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It seems as if it would not take 'No' for answer, as if it were crying to her with summoning fingers, 'Come, come! it is time!'

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Some demanded their rights with full confidence and would not take no for answer.

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Delville and High Woods and Guillemont and Longueval and the Switch Trench—these are symbolic names of that attrition, of the heroism of British persistence which would not take No for answer.

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