词汇 | have no truck with something |
释义 | Idiom have no truck with somethinghave no truck with (someone/something) to refuse to become involved with someone or something.Our committee will have no truck with racist attitudes. Usage notes: usually said about someone or something you do not approve of 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. have no truck with somethingRur. 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. have no truck withHave 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. have no truck with something/someoneCOMMON If you have no truck with something or someone, you disapprove of them and refuse to become involved with them. As an American, she had no truck with the formality of English life. Great efforts were made to get him on the side of the rebels. He had no truck with them. Note: The verbs want and hold are sometimes used instead of have. Most traditional doctors hold no truck with these ideas. Note: `Truck' is an old term which referred to trading goods by bartering. `To have no truck with someone' literally means to have no dealings with them. have (or want) no truck with1 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’. 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.have no truck withAvoid. “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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