no exceptions
Every single one
No exceptions means without any cases excluded or exempted from a rule or statement.
The phrase emphasizes absoluteness—everyone or everything is included, no one gets special treatment: All employees must attend, no exceptions.
It often follows a directive to preempt requests for exemption: The deadline is Friday, no exceptions.
- absoluteTotal, without qualification
- strictRigorous, without flexibility
- hard and fastRigidly fixed, unyielding
- unconditionalWithout limits or qualifications
- zero tolerancePolicy allowing no infractions
mandatory · rigid · set in stone · blanket · universal · ironclad · non-negotiable · take it or leave it · firm · unwavering · come hell or high water · categorical · inflexible · hardline · rule · policy · enforced · without fail
- exclusionexclude, excluded, rule out, banned, bans
- signsstop sign, sign, signs, road sign, exit
- Constructed Languagesconlang, Esperanto, artificial language, auxiliary language, language creation
no exceptionsflexible
Able to bend freely
negotiable · case-by-case · discretionary · subject to change · bendable
no exceptionsgenerally
In most instances
usually · sometimes · as a rule · for the most part · not always
exception, exceptions, exceptional, exceptionally, except, excepted, excepting, excepts