| Subject | English | Thesaurus |
| proverb | all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy | it is not healthy for someone to work all the time and never play (Often used to exhort someone to stop working, or to justify why you have stopped working; you can substitute the name of the person you are addressing for Jack: Don't come to the office this weekend. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. • I'd like to take a week's vacation next month. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.  thefreedictionary.com) |
| proverb | all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy | too much focus on (one's) career may lead to one being uninteresting company (wiktionary.org) |
| proverb | all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy | working too much can be bad for (one's) health or can make one boring (Come out to the pub with us tonight! All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. thefreedictionary.com) |
| saying. | all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy | used about a situation in which someone spends a lot of time working and has no time for other activities (macmillandictionary.com) |
| saying. | all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy | without time off from work, a person becomes both bored and boring (wikipedia.org) |
| saying. | all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy | used to say that you should not spend all your time working, but should spend some of your time relaxing (ldoceonline.com) |
| saying. | all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy | said to warn someone that they will not be an interesting person by working all the time (cambridge.org) |
| proverb | all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy | too much hard work and not enough leisure time can be unhealthy (wiktionary.org) |
| proverb | all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy | constant work without rest or relaxation is harmful to (one's) personal life and well-being (In addition to firm information, we have a little game because all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy • Though you agree that all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy, the industrious and methodical part of you will do justice to your work. lexico.com) |
| tech. | CO/NO | current operator-next operator |
| abbr., astronaut. | European Research Grouping Arrangement No 1 concerning Co-Operative Defence Research and Technology Projects | ERG-1 2002 (semfromshire) |
| relig. | Kada no Azumamaro | (1669-1736) One of the founders (according to some the main founder) of the kokugaku or fukko shinto school of thought which looked for a return to Japanese origins through sources such as the Kojiki and the Nihongi —and in Azumamaro's case the Kujiki, though he later came to regard it as a forgery—rather than in Buddhist or Confucian texts. He was a lay priest at the Inari shrine in Kyoto who had built up a personal library of ancient Japanese texts. He was strongly influenced by the Japanese Confucian scholar Ogyu, Sorai who had campaigned for a new investigation of the oldest Confucian classics. In 1728 Azumamaro successfully submitted a petition (written in ornate classical Chinese) to the shogun Tokugawa, Yoshimune in which he praised the spread of Confucian and Buddhist learning during the Tokugawa peace but lamented the longstanding neglect of the scholarly, especially textual, study of Japanese sources. He requested that a school of "national learning' and a lending library of rare texts should be established in Kyoto, parallel to the Confucian fukko (return to antiquity') enterprise of the Sung dynasty in China. From a kokugaku "lineage" point of view he is seen as one of the four great inspirational scholars of kokugaku along with Kamo no Mabuchi, Motoori Norinaga and Hirata Atsutane |
| humor., abbr. | No Body Checking | NBC |
| abbr., telecom. | no contact | normally closed contact |
| slang | no harm, no foul | no problem, it's cool (Usually used in response to someone's apology to indicate acceptance Lu4ik) |
| abbr., telecom. | note no. | note number |
| IT, abbr. | Program for Internet News and Email / PINE Is No longer ELM | PINE |
