no relation

idiom

—used after saying the names of two people with the same last name to say they are not related to each other

I'm Jill Jones, and this is Mike Jones—no relation.

Examples of no relation in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The club did win the FA Cup in that 1908-09 season, though, triumphing at Bank Street in the first, second and third rounds — beating Blackburn 6-1 in the last of those games with Sandy Turnbull and Jimmy Turnbull (no relation) scoring hat-tricks. —Will Jeanes, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2025

Nowhere has this dynamic become clearer than in the recent controversy surrounding Balázs Orbán, the political director to Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orbán (no relation). —Ilya Shapiro, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Aug. 2025

Golden Highway, which also included bassist Shelby Means, banjoist Kyle Tuttle (no relation), fiddle player Bronwyn Keith-Hynes and mandolin player Dominick Leslie, disbanded earlier this year to focus on solo initiatives and other pursuits. —Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 14 Aug. 2025

The Yankees, bedeviled by a bad bullpen, added relievers Camilo Doval, Jake Bird, and David Bednar, plus third baseman Ryan McMahon, while the Mets brought in four two-month rentals in prospective free agents Cedric Mullins, Ryan Helsley, Tyler Rogers, and Gregory Soto (no relation to Juan). —Dan Schlossberg, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025

Rhymes for no relation

• abdication
• aberration
• abjuration
• abnegation
• abrogation
• acceptation
• acclamation
• acclimation
• accusation
• activation
• actuation
• acylation