no comment
no comment
I don't have any response to make about that. Said as a reply to a question or insinuation. A: "It just seems a bit odd that your salary increase comes at the exact same time as the pay cut to your employees." B: "No comment." A: "Governor, how long have you been accepting bribes?" B: "No comment."
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
No comment.
I have nothing to say on this matter. Q: When did you stop beating your dog? A: No comment. Q: Georgie, did you chop down the cherry tree? A: No comment.
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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
ˌno ˈcomment
(said in reply to a question, usually from a journalist) I have nothing to say about that: ‘Will you resign, sir?’ ‘No comment!’See also: comment, no
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary
no comment
I don’t want to talk about it. This ambiguous reply to a question one doesn’t wish to answer originated in the mid-twentieth century among politicians and diplomats responding to journalists or interviewers. It soon began to be used more widely by other public figures and is fast approaching the status of a cliché.
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The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer
- odd duck
- duck
- a dusty reply
- chemically imbalanced
- odd and curious
- answer on a postcard
- if you catch my drift
- if you get my meaning
- if you know what I mean
- if you see what I mean