Just Say No
Reject the offer
Just Say No was an anti-drug slogan from the 1980s American campaign led by Nancy Reagan, urging young people to refuse drugs.
The phrase now serves as shorthand for simplistic abstinence-based solutions to complex problems: Their approach to teen pregnancy is basically Just Say No.
It often carries a mocking tone, implying that willpower alone is insufficient.
- gateway drugSubstance preceding addiction escalation
- first ladyPreeminent woman somewhere
- 1980sFourth-to-last twentieth-century decade
- nobodyInconsequential person
- drug-freeWithout illicit substances
Nancy Reagan · naysayer · boundaries · peer pressure · peer group
- slogansGot Milk, slogan, tagline, catchphrase, motto
Just Say Nosay yes
Express agreement verbally
give in · cave in · capitulate · accept · cave
Just Say Noindulge
Satisfy a craving
treat yourself · live a little · why not · carpe diem · hedonism
Just Say Nodrug legalization
Permitting controlled substances officially
harm reduction · counterculture · drug culture · Timothy Leary
just, say, justice, justify, justification, justified, justly, unjust, unjustly