on no account

Idioms  

1. Also, not on any account. Under no circumstances, certainly not, as in On no account should you put a metal utensil in the microwave oven, or Dad said we can't go, not on any account. [Mid-1800s]

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on no account

And on no account were there to be public displays of affection among the protesters.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 31, 2017

Publicists at Doubleday and at Bloomsbury, her U.K. publisher, said that on no account was I to attempt to discover Lyndsey’s real name, or the names of other people described in the book.

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 19, 2016

"I conjure to my friends on no account to make me the subject of any monument, memorial or testimonial whatsoever. I rest my claims to the remembrance of my country upon my published works."

From BBC ● Feb. 7, 2014

Besides, she is already wrapping up, telling me that on no account am I to refer to her as a Taiwanese businesswoman.

From Slate ● Feb. 19, 2012

My mother was going to accompany me to London and see me on to the Derby train, but she had been told that on no account should she travel farther than that.

From "Boy: Tales of a Childhood" by Roald Dahl