quart Идиома

give no quarter

not co-operate or concede, drive a hard bargain When he negotiates a contract, he gives no quarter. He's firm.

drawn and quartered

Idiom(s): drawn and quartered

Theme: VIOLENCE

dealt with very severely. (Referring to a practice of torturing someone guilty of treason by disemboweling and dividing the body into four parts. Fixed order.)
• Todd was practically drawn and quartered for losing the Wilson contract.
• You were much too harsh with Jean. No matter what she did, she didn't need to be drawn and quartered for it!

Monday morning quarterback

(USA) A Monday morning quarterback is someone who, with the benefit of hindsight, knows what should have been done in a situation.

No quarter

This means without mercy. We can say no quarter given or asked.

Quart into a pint pot

(UK) If you try to put or get a quart into a pint pot, you try to put too much in a small space. (1 quart = 2 pints)

close quarters|close|quarter|quarters

n. phr. Limited, cramped space. With seven boy scouts in a tent, they were living in very close quarters.

draw and quarter|draw|quarter

v. phr., literary 1. To execute someone in the barbaric medieval fashion of having him torn into four pieces by four horses tearing his body in four different directions. The captured foreign marauders were drawn and quartered by the angry citizens of ancient Frankfurt. 2. To punish someone very severely. "If you miss another homework assignment, John," the teacher said, "I'll have you drawn and quartered."

give no quarter|give|quarter

v. phr. To be ruthless and show no mercy. The enemy soldiers gave no quarter and shot all the prisoners.

not to give quarter|give|quarter

v. phr. 1. To be utterly unwilling to show mercy; not to allow a weaker or defeated party the chance to save themselves through escape. The occupying foreign army gave no quarter they took no prisoners, shot everyone, and made escape impossible. 2. To argue so forcefully during a negotiation or in a court of law as to make any counter-argument or counter-proposal impossible. The District Attorney hammered away at the witnesses and gave no quarter to the attorney for the defense.

quarterback sneak|quarterback|sneak

n. A football play in which the quarterback takes the ball from the center and dives straight ahead in an attempt to gain a very short distance. Johnson took the ball over on a quarterback sneak for a touchdown.

at close quarters

at close quarters
Crowded, in a confined space, as in We could use a lot more room; this tiny office puts us at close quarters. This idiom makes figurative use of quarters in the sense of “military lodgings” but originated in 18th-century naval warfare. When the enemy boarded a ship, the crew would retreat behind wooden barriers erected for this purpose and would continue to fire through loopholes. They thus were very near the enemy, fighting in close quarters. [c. 1800]

draw and quarter

draw and quarter
Punish severely, as in Mom'll draw and quarter me if even one scratch appears on her new car. This expression alludes to two brutal forms of execution practiced in the past. In one the victim was drawn by a horse to a gallows, hanged, and then cut into four pieces and scattered; in the other the victim was hanged, disemboweled while still alive (drawn), and then beheaded and dismembered. In both the victim was said to be hanged, drawn, and quartered. Today the term is usually used hyperbolically.

hanged, drawn, and quartered

hanged, drawn, and quartered
see draw and quarter.

Monday-morning quarterback

Monday-morning quarterback
A person who criticizes or passes judgment from a position of hindsight, as in Ethel was a Monday-morning quarterback about all the personnel changes in her department—she always claimed to have known what was going to happen. This expression, first recorded in 1932, alludes to fans who verbally “replay” Sunday's football game the next day, the quarterback being the team member who calls the plays.

quarter

quarter
see at close quarters; draw and quarter.