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no way
(spoken) not possibly
my foot Now he's asking me to lend him my car. No way! Usage notes: often used in the form there's no way: There's no way I could have paid for it.
no way
Also, there is no way. Certainly not; never. For example, No way can I forget what he did, or Are you coming along?-No way! or There's no way our candidate can lose. This colloquial expression dates from the mid-1900s, but an earlier adverb, noway, dates from the 1300s.
no way
Informal Certainly not: Did you like that movie?—No way! It was boring.
Common Names:
Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
Alana | | ə-LAN-ə | English |
Doris | | DAWR-is (English), DO-ris (German) | English, German, Croatian, Ancient Greek, Greek Mythology |
Wilfred | | WIL-frəd | English |
Illiam | | - | Manx |
Novak | | - | Serbian |
Gil (1) | | HEEL (Spanish), ZHEEL (Portuguese) | Spanish, Portuguese |