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Idiom there's no telling it is impossible to guess.There's no telling how much damage has been done to young people by these “designer drugs.”Even when we don't let them loose, there's no telling what kind of trouble the puppies will get into. Related vocabulary: you never can tell
idiomthere's no tellingspoken used in order to say that it is impossible to guess what will happen or what is true:After all the exercise you get, you should be in good shape, but there's no telling.We'll have to have a new auditor next year, and there's no telling what he'll be like.
there's no tellingSomething is unknown because it cannot be predicted. He acts so erratically that there's no telling what he will do next. there's no tellingIt's impossible to determine, as in There's no telling how many children will come down with measles, or There's no telling what will happen in the next episode of that soap opera. This idiom uses telling in the sense of "reckoning," a usage dating from the late 1300s. there's no telling it's impossible to know what has happened or will happen. |