say no

Meaning

1. Oxford80% of films

   to refuse an offer, a suggestion, etc.

In the movies · 157

• You said "no" to The Trunchbull.Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical2022
• They don't get to say no on this.Too Big to Fail2011
• Why would I say no when I meant yes?The Great Muppet Caper1981
• Say no more.The Christmas Chronicles: Part Two2020
• I can't say no.The Royal Tenenbaums2001
• You can't say no.The Princess Switch2018
• Please say no.You've Got Mail1998
• Can I say no?Coffee and Cigarettes2004

Learn it in full scenes

• The Christmas Chronicles: Part Two2020
  • Belsnickel Reveals Himself
  • Kate Grumbles Through a Beach Christmas
  • Kate Sees Through the Bribe

From the same entry

• before you can say Jack Robinson
• go without saying
• have something, nothing, to say for yourself
• having said that
• I'll say
• I must say
• I say
• it says a lot, very little, for
• I wouldn't say no
• least said soonest mended
• the less said the better
• never say die

More idioms

• get rid of
• right away
• in time
• ever since
• take it easy
• make sense
• at the end of the day
• here you go
• at first
• you have no idea
• just a minute
• if you don't mind