have/hold/want no truck with

phrase

: to refuse to be involved with (someone or something)

I'll have no truck with such nonsense.

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This is a laborious process, especially for a one-off usage — a scale-minded Silicon Valley firm would have no truck with it — and can take up to a month and involve some 300,000 images. — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 31 Mar. 2026 Jonathan Gitlin This pick will probably upset some purists out there, those who have no truck with a car built on a platform designed to be powertrain agnostic. — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 29 Dec. 2023

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