take no for an answer, not

Not accept a refusal, be persistent in demanding something, as in I want you to show me the statements and I won't take no for an answer. This idiom was first recorded in 1930 in Winston Churchill's My Early Life: "Don't take no for an answer, never submit to failure."

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Anso	-	Ancient Germanic
Dominica	-	English (Rare), Late Roman
Gervaise	zher-VEZ	French (Rare)
RoŽĖ	-	Lithuanian
Giselbert	-	Ancient Germanic
Zartosht	-	Persian