If you are trying to achieve something and you say that it's no dice, you mean that you are having no success or luck with it. If someone asks you for something and you reply no dice, you are refusing to do what they ask.
If there'd been a halfway decent house for rent on this island, I would have takenit. But it was no dice.
If the Republicans were to say "no dice," the Democrats would think they have a campaignissue.
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no dice in British English
slang, mainly US and Canadian
an expression of refusal or rejection
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no dice in American English
1.
no
used in refusing a request
2.
no success, luck, etc.
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no dice
said to mean that you are trying to achieve something but that you are having no luckor success with it
I spent part of that time calling everyone I knew to see if I could find anotherjob for him. No dice.
said when you are refusing to do what someone has asked you to do
Nope, sorry, we're not interested, no dice.
Examples of 'no dice' in a sentence
no dice
I tried at Killington but they said no dice until Monday, so I figured I'd drive over here.
Wood, Ted SNOWJOB (1971)
Where the whisper came from, no dice; it might as well have arisen like a miasma from a crack in the prison floor.
Meek, M R D IN REMEMBRANCE OF ROSE (1971)
He'll give you the same answer, and then you ask him: "Suppose you have no dice, then where are you going?