N
Idioms beginning with "N"
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Contents of N:
[no way] {adv.}
Not at all; never; under no circumstances.
Do you think I will do the house chores alone? No way!
[no wonder] also [small wonder] {adj.}
Not surprising; to be expected.
It is no wonder that the children love to visit the farm.
The Browns didn't go to the fair. Small wonder — they dislike large noisy crowds.
[no-show] {n.}, {informal}
A person who makes a reservation, e.g., at a hotel or at an airline, and then neither claims nor cancels it.
The airlines were messed up because of a great number of no-show passengers.
[nobody home] {slang}
1. Your attention is somewhere else, not on what is being said or done here; you are absent-minded.
The teacher asked him a question three times but he still looked out the window. She gave up, saying, "Nobody home."
2. You […]
[nobody's fool] {n. phr.}
A smart person; a person who knows what he is doing; a person who can take care of himself.
In the classroom and on the football field, Henry was nobody's fool.
Contrast: [BORN YESTERDAY].
[nodding acquaintance] {n.}
Less than casual acquaintance.
I have never spoken to the chancellor; we have only a nodding acquaintance.