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there's no telling



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Idioms and Phrases

It's impossible to determine, as in There's no telling how many children will come down with measles , or There's no telling what will happen in the next episode of that soap opera . This idiom uses telling in the sense of ā€œreckoning,ā€ a usage dating from the late 1300s.
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Example Sentences

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It certainly doesn’t imply any endorsement of Navarro’s disastrous trade-war policies, although there’s no telling how far his ideas got hijacked or mistranslated on their way through Donald Trump’s brain.

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BeyoncĆ© being BeyoncĆ©, there’s no telling what kind of musical and visual spectacular she’s got in store — though she may have provided a hint in December with the characteristically intricate halftime show she performed during a Christmas Day NFL game.

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ā€œThere’s no telling how many lives would be tragically cut short and how many communities would have been devastated had these drugs been distributed,ā€ Bonta said.

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ā€œThat prayer was for me. My son had already passed, but I had to be built up before the doctor told me what happened. If I hadn’t done that first, there’s no telling how it would’ve gone.ā€

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All of this might well be illegal, and a military devoted to the rule of law would refuse to carry out such orders, but without independent safeguards, there’s no telling what orders senior military leaders might accept, until it’s too late.

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