In the Edinburgh area, Leith and neighbouring Granton have only one terminal station where formerly there were four, and the long-established ferry from Granton to Burntisland, the history of which stretches back to the dawn of Scottish railways, is no more.1958 July 23, J. P. Wilson, “Scottish Soliloquy”, in Railway Magazine, page 495:
This parrot is no more! It has ceased to be! It's expired and gone to meet its maker! This is a late parrot! It's a stiff! Bereft of life, it rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed it to the perch it would be pushing up the daisies!1969 December 7, Monty Python, “Full Frontal Nudity, Dead Parrot sketch”, in Monty Python's Flying Circus, spoken by Mr Praline (John Cleese):
no more
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Etymology From Middle English no more, nomore, from Old English nā māre, nāmāre.
If thou wilt not, befall what may befall, I'll speak no more,—but vengeance rot you all!c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
Farewell to Lochaber, farewell to the glen, No more will he wander Lochaber again.1917, Neil Munro, Lochaber No More:
[There are] No more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks.1972, “School's Out”, performed by Alice Cooper:
I think of so many people who are no more, and I pity them. Yet they are not so much to be pitied, for they have solved every problem, beginning with the problem of death.1973, Emil Cioran, translated by Richard Howard, The Trouble With Being Born:
Etymology From Middle English no more, nomore, from Old English nā māre, nāmāre.
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Stop it! Don't continue!
The police officer started with another round of questions. “Please, no more. I can't do this anymore.” Janette lay her head down on the kitchen table and cried.2009, C. Leslie Bradley, In Her Dreams:
no more
noun
Etymology From Middle English no more, nomore, from Old English nā māre, nāmāre.
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Idiomatic, Rare Something that is from a certain point onwards forbidden, or non-existent.
So even becoming a doctor created a no more for him — no more guitar playing!2013, Charles K. Stanley, What No Eye Has Seen:
We didn't like to find the areas where we did not see eye-to-eye because they generated their own list of no mores and made us uncomfortable with each other.2014, Buddy Rogers, The Pain from the Death of a Spouse: