no more

From Middle English no more, nomore, from Old English nā māre, nāmāre.

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no more (not comparable)

1. (idiomatic) Not any more; no further.

   There's no more wine.

2. (idiomatic) Dead, no longer in existence.

   She held him until he was no more.

   The USSR is no more.

   • 1958 July, J. P. Wilson, “Scottish Soliloquy”, in Railway Magazine, page 495:

     In the Edinburgh area, Leith and neighbouring Granton have only one terminal station where formerly there were four, and the long-established ferry from Granton to Burntisland, the history of which stretches back to the dawn of Scottish railways, is no more.

   • 1969 December 7, Monty Python, “Full Frontal Nudity, Dead Parrot sketch”, in Monty Python's Flying Circus, spoken by Mr Praline (John Cleese):

     This parrot is no more! It has ceased to be! It's expired and gone to meet its maker! This is a late parrot! It's a stiff! Bereft of life, it rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed it to the perch it would be pushing up the daisies!

no more (not comparable)

1. (idiomatic) No longer; not any more.

   I will pay no more today.

   He will bother you no more.

   • c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     If thou wilt not, befall what may befall,
     I'll speak no more,—but vengeance rot you all!

   • 1817, Lord Byron, So, we'll go no more a roving:
   • 1917, Neil Munro, Lochaber No More:

     Farewell to Lochaber, farewell to the glen,
     No more will he wander Lochaber again.

   • 1972, “School's Out”, performed by Alice Cooper:

     [There are] No more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks.

   • 1973, Emil Cioran, translated by Richard Howard, The Trouble With Being Born:

     I think of so many people who are no more, and I pity them. Yet they are not so much to be pitied, for they have solved every problem, beginning with the problem of death.

2. (dated) Equally not; not either.

   - I can't swim.
   - No more can I.

   You could no more climb that fence than fly!

• no more Mr. Nice Guy

• any more
• no longer (overlaps semantically with sense 1)

• no less

no more

1. Stop it! Don't continue!
   • 2009, C. Leslie Bradley, In Her Dreams:

     The police officer started with another round of questions. “Please, no more. I can't do this anymore.” Janette lay her head down on the kitchen table and cried.

no more (plural no mores)

1. (idiomatic, rare) Something that is from a certain point onwards forbidden, or non-existent.
   • 2013, Charles K. Stanley, What No Eye Has Seen:

     So even becoming a doctor created a no more for him — no more guitar playing!

   • 2014, Buddy Rogers, The Pain from the Death of a Spouse:

     We didn't like to find the areas where we did not see eye-to-eye because they generated their own list of no mores and made us uncomfortable with each other.

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• Monroe, Moreno, mooner, morone