ни в какую

• НИ В КАКУЮ highly coll

[PrepP; Invar; predic (with subj: human, collect, or animal) or adv; fixed WO]

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⇒ one absolutely and categorically refuses, is unwilling etc (to agree to sth., accept sth. etc):

- X - ни в какую{{}}≈ X won't (wouldn't) have it;

- X will (would) have none of it;

- X won't (wouldn't) budge;

- X won't (wouldn't) hear of it;

|| [when used as adv] not (do sth.) on any account;

- not (do sth.) for anything;

- [when used as indep. remark] no way.

     ♦ Главным действующим лицом в Базеле была моя бабушка Эльфрида, и бабушка Эльфрида - ни в какую!.. Чтобы её Якоб, такой Якоб, вдруг женился, да ещё на дочери сапожника, об этом не может быть и речи (Рыбаков 1). The chief character in Basel was my grandmother, Elfrieda, and grandmother Elfrieda would simply have none of it!... That her Jakob should all of a sudden get married, and to the daughter of a bootmaker, was simply out of the question (1a).

     ♦ Лукашин, когда стали утверждать сенокосные группы, - ни в какую (Абрамов 1). Lukashin wouldn't hear of it when they began setting up the harvest groups (1a).

     ♦ "...Старик у нас охотник, медведя валил в своё время. Я ему и говорю: "Вот тебе ружьё, старик, стреляй". А он ни в какую" (Айтматов 1). "...The old man's a hunter-he's dealt with bear in his time. So I say to him, here's the rifle, old man-you shoot. But he won't do it for anything" (1b).

     ♦ ...Павел хорошо понимал, что матери здесь [в посёлке] не привыкнуть. Ни в какую (Распутин 4). ...Pavel knew that his mother would never get used to it [the settlement]. No way (4a).