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Idioms and Phrases
Specify persons by name, especially those who are accused of something. For example, More than one person was involved in the robbery, and his lawyer said he would get a shorter sentence if he named names . It is also put negatively, name no names , as in Some of our neighbors disobey the town's leash law, but I'm naming no names . The negative form was first recorded in 1792.Discover More
Example Sentences
He would go on to name names before the House Un-American Activities Committee as a friendly witness.
After a month of refusing to name names, Nugent was released.
Frum refused to name names, saying he does so in his book, but do we doubt whom he was targeting?
Look for a director, Charles Eitel, a man of principle who will name names to keep working.
Pellicano refused to name names at his trial and was sentenced by Fischer to 15 years in prison.
I don't like to name names, but as we're all friends here, I don't mind saying he were a downright blackguard.
Were it not that I have no desire to be personal I could name names and make it clear to the public those who don't know how.
Among us it is unnecessary to name names or publish identities.
It wasn't for her to name names, but a certain young man had gone far, very far.
They are not Old Chester people—so you won't mind if I don't name names?
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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