no thanks to (someone/something)

despite someone or something.

Well, we've finished the painting, no thanks to Sandra, who suddenly decided she had to go away for the weekend!

• be flying high
• be footloose and fancy-free
• before can say Jack Robinson
• before could blink
• before know it
• before knows what hit
• before knows what hit them
• before last
• before long
• before someone could blink
• before someone knows what hit
• before someone knows what hit them
• before time
• before you can say
• before you can say Jack Robinson
• before you can say something
• before you know it
• before your time
• be for the asking
• be for the best
• be for the birds
• be for the chop
• be for the faint-hearted
• be for the high jump
• be for the taking