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ТАК НЕТ (ЖЕ) coll these forms only used as Conj (contrastive-concessive) fixed WO

used to connect two statements, the former of which shows what the speaker thinks should be done and the latter of which shows what is done in reality (which contradicts the speaker's opinion, evaluation etc): but no

but not him (her etc).

«Вы бы здесь потрудились - так нет, за границу сбежать хотели» (Марченко 1). "You should get down to some hard work here, but no, you want to run abroad instead** (1a).