no contest
Meaning: Said when one side is clearly better and there is no real competition.
Language: English
Literally: (Already vivid in English)
Example: “Homemade bread versus store-bought? No contest.”
Category: Daily Life
Origin: From sports and legal language, where a "no contest" is a match or plea with no real contest. The casual use is from the 20th century.
Equivalents in other languages
- Spanish: no haber color — literally: there is no color
- French: Y a pas photo — literally: There's no photo
More idioms — Daily Life
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- as old as Methuselah — Extremely old.
- ugly as sin — Very ugly.
- the sandman is coming — It's time to sleep; someone is getting sleepy.
- cash on the nail — Payment made immediately.
- move the needle — To make a noticeable difference.
More English idioms
- slow and steady wins the race — Patience and persistence succeed better than haste.
- go by shanks' mare — To walk; to travel on foot.
- like a duck to water — Naturally and easily, as if born to it.
- kill the goose that lays the golden eggs — To destroy a source of profit out of greed.
- with one's tail between one's legs — Humiliated and defeated.
- have a foot in both camps — To be involved with two opposing sides at once.
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