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in no uncertain terms in no uncertain termsVery explicitly and emphatically. He told me in no uncertain terms that if it happens again, I'll be expelled. There is no doubt. The contract states, in no uncertain terms, what must happen in cases like this.See also: no, termin no uncertain termsCliché in very specific and direct language. I was so mad. I told her in no uncertain terms to leave and never come back. I told him in no uncertain terms to stop calling me.See also: no, termin no uncertain termsEmphatically, definitely so. For example, Jane told them in no uncertain terms that she wanted no part of their practical joke. The double negative in this idiom serves for emphasis. [Mid-1900s] Also see in so many words. See also: no, termin no uncertain terms If someone tells a person something in no uncertain terms, they say it strongly and clearly so that there is no doubt about what they mean. She told him in no uncertain terms to go away.See also: no, termin no uncertain terms clearly and forcefully. 1991 Kaye Gibbons A Cure for Dreams My mother got the doctor back out to our house and told him in no uncertain terms to do what he was paid to do. See also: no, termin ˌno unˌcertain ˈterms clearly and forcefully: I told him in no uncertain terms what I thought of his behaviour.See also: no, termin no uncertain termsEmphatically, very clearly. This double negative appears to have become very popular about the middle of the twentieth century. Lawrence Durrell used it in Balthazar (1958): “I told Abdul so in no uncertain terms.” A slightly slangier synonym is loud and clear.See also: no, term |