never : Idioms & Phrases


Almost never

  • scarcely ever.
Webster 1913

Never a deal

  • not a bit. Obs. Chaucer.
Webster 1913

never again

  • adverb at no time hereafter
    nevermore.
    • Quoth the raven, nevermore!" -E.A.Poe
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Never so

  • as never before; more than at any other time, or in any other circumstances; especially; particularly; now often expressed or replaced by ever so.
    Ask me never so much dower and gift. Gen. xxxiv. 12.
    A fear of battery, ... though never so well grounded, is no duress. Blackstone.
Webster 1913

never-ending

  • adjective satellite uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing
    ceaseless; constant; unceasing; perpetual; incessant; unremitting.
    • the ceaseless thunder of surf
    • in constant pain
    • night and day we live with the incessant noise of the city
    • the never-ending search for happiness
    • the perpetual struggle to maintain standards in a democracy
    • man's unceasing warfare with drought and isolation
    • unremitting demands of hunger
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never-never

  • noun installment plan
    hire-purchase.
    • we bought a car on the never-never
  • noun the remote outback of Australia; unpopulated desert country
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never-never land

  • noun a pleasing country existing only in dreams or imagination
    dreamland; dreamworld.
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never-say-die

  • adjective satellite impossible to subdue
    indomitable; unsubduable.
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