no quarter

idiom

literary

: no pity or mercy

—used to say that an enemy, opponent, etc., is treated in a very harsh way

The soldiers showed/gave no quarter to the enemy.

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After a third set with no quarter, Keys was a game from the trophy with Sabalenka trying to prolong the match into a deciding tiebreak. —

Matthew Futterman, The Athletic, 25 Jan. 2025 The rowdy fans typically give no quarter to visiting players, something Boise State’s senior point guard knows quite well — just not yet as a Bronco. —

Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 10 Jan. 2025 The Senators were granted no quarter, and couldn’t appear to find the inner slot with a map. —

Thomas Drance, The Athletic, 23 Nov. 2024 Despentes offers no quarter to her titular hero, whose dark wit and casually racist rants come at the reader in a mad rush of metaphors and aphorisms, Despentes’s gutter vernacular of the underclass. —

Marc Weingarten, The Atlantic, 23 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for no quarter