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| that's not the way it works (disagreement with someone's demands: "(Housing Minister) Coleman's take on it: "You have people coming from outside B.C. saying, 'I like it here. I think I'll camp here and play my music. Now give me a house.' Sorry, that's not the way it works." (The Province newspaper)); that's not good enough | |||
| this won't do ("(...) we're letting ourselves get rattled! We're losing our nerve. This won't do." – P.G. Wodehouse) | |||
| it won't do | |||
| it would not do (Vadim Rouminsky) | |||
| no can do (proggie) | |||
| it doesn't work like that (Damirules) | |||
| так не пойдёт: 30 phrases in 8 subjects |
| American usage, not spelling | 2 |
| British usage, not spelling | 1 |
| Diplomacy | 1 |
| Disapproving | 1 |
| General | 18 |
| Idiomatic | 1 |
| Informal | 3 |
| Makarov | 3 |