They were like, no, thank you, Apolo, you're not good enough.

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Honking horns from the baying taxi drivers outside will bring you back to modern day Amman before you can say la shokran elak (no, thank you).

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You may need to remind them every once in a while, and in the meantime, teach your child that when they're unsure about a food, they need to say, "No, thank you!"

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And on this unemployment-insurance side, the message is very clear: Thank you, but no thank you.

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If it's a question of whether Greeks want the austerity measures or not, then it's a fair bet they'll say: on balance, er, no thank you very much.

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No tax increase, thank you.

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"No thank you, " I said.

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No thank you Ms. Tice, I think it is far better to risk and fail than to have never risked at all.

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Thus, New Labour would need to say no thank you to Microsoft.

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No phone has killed the iPhone, but plenty of them co-exist just fine, thank you very much.

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