AE 1148 - Expression: Take No Prisoners
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The Definition of Take No Prisoners
i went over to dick oz dot co d i c o zed dot c o to find out where this expression originally came from. It is suggested that this expression was first used in the nineteenth century as a military command, meaning that the objective was to kill everyone. So if you take no prisoners, you go after something, you pursue some objectives ruthlessly, aggressively, uncompromisingly. And let's go through three examples of how i would use the expression to take no prisoners.
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