be (a) no go
informalto be impossible or not effective, or to not happen:
They tried for hours to get her to come down from the roof, but it was a no go.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Unachievable
- be on a hiding to nothing idiom
- be out of your league idiom
- cat
- elusive
- for love nor money idiom
- impossibly
- impracticable
- in/out of the running idiom
- infeasible
- inoperable
- league
- love
- no way idiom
- nohow
- not have a cat in hell's chance idiom
- running
- unworkable
- way
- will-o'-the-wisp
- you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear idiom
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