take no prisoners
See also: take-no-prisoners
English
Verb
take no prisoners (third-person singular simple present takes no prisoners, present participle taking no prisoners, simple past took no prisoners, past participle taken no prisoners)
- (idiomatic) To be uncompromising.
- 2015 January 21, “Ex Machina: Quest to create an AI takes no prisoners”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), New Scientist:
- It’s a rare thing to see a movie about science that takes no prisoners intellectually.
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- Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see take, prisoner.