have no truck with
have no truck with (someone or something)
To not be involved with someone or something. Oh, I have no truck with him anymore, not since our fight.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
have no truck with something
Rur. to have nothing to do with something. After the way Mary treated me, I'll have no truck with her. We only show good, wholesome movies at this theater. We have no truck with most of that Hollywood trash.
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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
have no truck with
Have no dealings with, as in The doctor said he wanted no truck with midwives. This term was first recorded in 1868, although truck in the sense of "dealings" dates from the early 1600s.
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
have (or want) no truck with
1 avoid dealing or being associated with. 2 be unsympathetic or opposed to.The earliest sense of truck was ‘trading by the exchange of commodities’ (from French troquer , meaning ‘barter’), from which developed the sense ‘communication or dealings’.
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Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary
have/want no ˈtruck with somebody/something
(British English) not want to deal with or be involved with somebody/something: He’ll have no truck with anyone on the political left.See also: have, no, somebody, something, truck, want
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary
have no truck with
Avoid. “Truck” came from the French woes for “barter.” Originally, if you had no truck with somebody, you refused to trade with him or her. By extension it came to mean you refused to have anything to do with the person.
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Endangered Phrases by Steven D. Price
- have no truck with (someone or something)
- have no truck with something/someone
- have/want no truck with somebody/something
- want no truck with (someone or something)
- truck out
- truck in
- (I) hope not
- not much to look at
- roach-coach
- gut truck