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no dice!
- originally and literally, in a dice game a roll of the dice that does not count because of a rule violation US
- — The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, p. 128, May 1950
- positively no US, 1931
- I packed up with my family and moved out to Jackson Heights, Long Island, to fight it out in the wilderness of the Borough of Queens. No dice. I tried my damnedest, couldn’t make it. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 270, 1946
- Captain Black came in. “No dice.” — Philip Wylie, Opus 21, p. 342, 1949
- No dice, Mr. Berin. They hurt me but they didn’t scare me. — Mickey Spillane, My Gun is Quick, pp. 74–75, 1950
- I tried to make myself sleep, but it was no dice. — Jim Thompson, Savage Night, p. 67, 1953
- No shirts, no shoes, no dice. — Fast Times at Ridgemont High, 1982
- “Officer, how about I give you guys some dollars? How much you need?” No dice. — Elmore Leonard, Glitz, p. 59, 1985
- Nice try, Gorgeous, but no dice, I’m afraid. — Guardian, 15 March 2002
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