have no truck with something/someone

have no truck with (someone or something)

To not be involved with someone or something. Oh, I have no truck with him anymore, not since our fight. I can call them, sure, but I doubt I'll get anywhere. I haven't worked at that place for years—I have no truck with them anymore. That lowlife has no truck with us, so tell him not to come around here anymore.

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have no truck with something/someone

COMMON If you have no truck with something or someone, you disapprove of them and refuse to become involved with them. As an American, she had no truck with the formality of English life. Great efforts were made to get him on the side of the rebels. He had no truck with them. Note: The verbs want and hold are sometimes used instead of have. Most traditional doctors hold no truck with these ideas. Note: `Truck' is an old term which referred to trading goods by bartering. `To have no truck with someone' literally means to have no dealings with them.

See also: have, no, someone, something, truck

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