no room for
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3.8
- idiom
:
no hay lugar para
- There is no room for error.
- leave no room for
- no room for doubt
- no room for questions here
Now that doesn't say there's room, there's no room for changes or improvising.
- Now that doesn't say there's room, there's no room for changes or improvising.
- This means that there's no room for the usual wishy washy.
- And when that was the way I was working towards, there was no room for anything but success.
- That would leave no room for what it is that humans really want.
- Because there is no room for emotional distress in a business.
- Like I don't care if you're gay, but in the military, there's no room for individualism.
- I mean, there's no room for judgement with these episodes, OK?
- And Robert Sapolsky, the scientist I quoted, he said there's just no room for blame.
- But there is no room for anger in the cheerful narcissistic person's world.
Examples
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But the idea that this country has no room for immigrants is nonsense.
Academic text (2011) -
There's no room for luggage in this boat!
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There is no room for them.
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With all those kids running around there is no room for you, let alone us.
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A single test score leaves little or no room for comments and questions by parents.
Academic text (2000) -
In this business, there is no room for mistakes.
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As far as Monica could see, there was no room for her anywhere.
Fiction book (1995) -
As one African American attorney put it: "There is no room for error."
Academic text (2017) -
And I want to make sure there's no room for confusion here.
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In such a tight schedule, there is no room for delays.
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning "there is not enough space or opportunity" is directly and compositionally derivable from 'no' (not any) + 'room' (physical or figurative space) + 'for' (indicating the target), so learners who know the constituent words can infer the phrase. This literal-to-figurative extension is regular and common across languages, making the construction immediately comprehensible to a B1 learner.
Etymology
No room for comes from the simple picture of a real room that is already full; if there is no space left, you cannot put anything more in it. So we use no room for to say there is not enough space or chance for something now, like 'no room for mistakes'.