Not accept a refusal, be persistent in demanding something, as in I want you to show me the statements and I won't take no for an answer. This idiom was first recorded in 1930 in Winston Churchill's
My Early Life: "Don't take no for an answer, never submit to failure."
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- answer (Idiom)
- Never Take No for an Answer (1952 Drama Film)
- The Wrong Man (1910 Film)
- Lady In Black (1987 Thriller Film)
- Brewster's Honeymoon: The Beverly Hillbillies (TV Episode) (1965 Comedy TV Episode)
- Romeo and Mary: The Mary Tyler Moore Show (TV Episode) (1973 Comedy TV Episode)
- The Cape Cad: Cheers (TV Episode) (1986 Comedy TV Episode)
- Beaver's Sweater: Leave It to Beaver (TV Episode) (1959 Comedy TV Episode)
- A Gift from the Chief: F Troop (TV Episode) (1965 TV Episode)
- Love Me, Love My Horse: Alice (TV Episode) (1978 Comedy TV Episode)
- Miz Tisdale on the Lam: The Dukes of Hazzard (TV Episode) (1982 Action TV Episode)
- It Had to Be You: The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (TV Episode) (1991 Comedy TV Episode)
- Someone to Give My Love To/Ain't Gonna Take No (1997 Album by Frank Ifield)
- The Girl from Tobacco Row (1966 Drama Film)
