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"No" Clichés Quiz

Can you guess the missing words in these clichés that involve the word "no"?
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Last updated: December 4, 2019
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First submittedMarch 24, 2014
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Cliché
No pain, no gain
No holds barred
Close, but no cigar
No soup for you
No strings attached
No rest for the wicked
Look ma, no hands
No guts, no glory
Cliché
No honor among thieves
A rolling stone gathers no moss
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy
No harm, no foul
No good deed goes unpunished
There's no crying in baseball
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned
No shirt, no shoes, no service
Cliché
No way, José
No worse for wear
Dead men tell no tales
The emperor has no clothes
All bark, no bite
No skin off my nose
Point of no return
No win situation
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Level 92
Mar 31, 2014
I'd argue if a couple of these are cliches, but there's no crying in JetPunk either. Fun quiz.
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Level 52
Jan 3, 2020
Haha - agreed. Seinfeldisms/TV lines are not cliches, no matter how well known.. In that case, the quiz should include, "To the moon, Alice," "You look mar-vel-ous!" and "Lucy, you've got some 'splaining to do." But still fun, thanks!
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Level 75
Feb 21, 2020
None of those include the word "No"
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Level 59
Apr 16, 2014
Or as I like to say: "No shirt, no shoes, no problem!"
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Level 89
Nov 7, 2014
"No shirt, no shoes, no dice!"

"Learn it. know it, live it."

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Level 89
Jan 3, 2020
Why don't you get a job, Spicoli?
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Level 89
Feb 4, 2022
All I need is some good bud, some tasty waves and I'm fine.
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Level 76
Jul 1, 2018
Or as I like to say: 'Shirt, shoes, service!'
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Level 74
Apr 16, 2014
no loyalty amongst thieves is also quite common
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Level 77
Jan 6, 2022
According to Ngram viewer, "honor among thieves" appears in writing about 100 times more commonly than "loyalty". That probably just means that people who don't quite know the cliche accidentally say loyalty sometimes.
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Level 24
Apr 21, 2014
dead men also tell no lies
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Level 24
Jul 16, 2014
That's what I first thought of.
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Level 59
Apr 10, 2018
May I also point out dead men tell no truths, no laws, no stories, nobody, no facts and no news. Point being, literally any noun could go there.
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Level 82
Jul 1, 2018
They can still tell time if you put a watch on them.
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Level 11
Jun 26, 2014
Why did I think it was "close, but no banana"? haha
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Level 48
Oct 6, 2018
i have heard that as well
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Level 78
Jan 6, 2022
PG version, I guess
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Level 65
Oct 25, 2014
I've always heard "no shirt, no shoes, no business."
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Level 55
Oct 13, 2015
I'm sorry, but as far as I know being "worse for wear" is a well known idiom, particularly used for drunkenness, but could just mean being ill or below par. I'm not aware that "no worse for wear" is a thing. (UK English)
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Level 74
Jul 21, 2016
It's deffo a thing. If you fall over and pick yourself up and someone asks if you're alright, you might say you were no worse for wear.
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Level 84
Nov 17, 2015
I've always heard it as "no worse for THE wear," though I managed to get it with a couple guesses.
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Level 75
Jan 14, 2016
The cliché is honour among thieves and worse for wear, not no honour
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Level 77
Jul 1, 2018
I agree. The point of the cliché is that even among thieves there is honour of a sort.
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Level 71
Sep 1, 2018
Honour at a price:
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Level 77
Jan 6, 2022
This is correct. The cliche is that there IS "honor among thieves". Went to Google nGram viewer to verify, and the cliche has always been that there IS honor among thieves. "No honor among thieves" is a recent corruption and is much less common. The term "honor among thieves" first appeared, according to nGram, around 1750, and "no honor" was only in the 1830s and extremely rarely. "Honor" was between 100 and 10 times more popular until the 1990s, and since then it's been about three or four times more popular.
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Level 72
Feb 4, 2022
"only in the 1830s"... that's not very only.
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Level 75
Aug 5, 2016
no shirt, no shoes, no entry
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Level 82
Jul 1, 2018
there should be down votes for comments
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Level 75
Jul 3, 2018
???

Very common saying here - it's from pretentious nightclubs that only let people in if they follow a dress code. Horrible places.

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Level 66
Aug 19, 2019
I tried admittance and yes, there shóuld be a down vote for comments..
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Level 82
Feb 4, 2022
I don't know but I assume whatever comment I was responding to got deleted. Or maybe I was just in the mood to go somewhere without a shirt on.
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Level 75
May 3, 2018
Never heard no "crying" in baseball.
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Level 75
Jul 5, 2018
I think it's from a film - maybe A League of their Own
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Level 53
Nov 24, 2020
i think it should be 'point' ?
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Level 34
Jul 1, 2018
...no good turn goes unpunished should be accepted...IMO...and some of these 'cliches' are just plain silly...;-)
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Level 70
Sep 1, 2018
This may have already been said, but I thing 'No PEACE for the wicked' is a lot more common where I come from (England)>
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Level 80
Sep 4, 2018
Agreed, no peace for the wicked is common in the UK at least.
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Level 48
Oct 6, 2018
ditto
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Level 66
Jan 22, 2023
Lived there 60 years and only ever heard it as no rest
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Level 55
Nov 13, 2018
no peace for the wicked, never heard other version
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Level 41
May 16, 2019
Surprised how low "no soup for you" is.
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Level 52
Jan 3, 2020
It's the only one I missed. Not a Seinfeld fan.
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Level 68
Jan 3, 2020
No heroes among thieves?
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Level 75
Nov 24, 2020
"No soup for you" - a cliché, seriously? I like Seinfeld but c'mon...!
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Level 79
Jun 28, 2021
Yeah I agree. I knew it because I've seen that episode, but that definitely doesn't fit into this quiz. It's not a common cliche across the language and culture like the others, it's something only fans of seinfeld would know.
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Level 75
Feb 12, 2021
I was slightly disappointed that we didn't get Bruce Arian's "No risk it, no biscuit."
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Level 54
Feb 12, 2021
The cliche is "No rest for the _weary_." The given answer is a song.
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Level 74
Oct 13, 2021
No victor, no vanquished.
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Level 88
Jan 6, 2022
I always thought it was no nonsense situation
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Level 37
Jan 25, 2024
no cuts, no buts, no coconuts.