No banister
No net
No suspenders
No tool belt
No training wheels
No gun
No holster
No silencer
No ammo clip
No pocket knife with pliers scissors or tweezers
No cane to steady weakened knees
No accommodation for self-invited weekend guests
No floatation device
No motivational uplift
No encomium
No hymn
No trophy
No pep rally
No affirmation
No recognition
No honorarium
No roast for good sports only
No place set at the head of the table
No fee for services rendered
No sidelong glance
No finger laid aside the nose
No nod wink secret handshake or raised eyebrow
No grimace
No cringe
No wince
No rictus
No proofs of courage loyalty or capacity to suffer
No expression of approval or disapproval
No heroic wealth of hall and bower
No confraternity of elite intelligences
No panel of experts
No board of directors regents or governors
No licensing body
No council for the upholding of standards
No subcommittee for the maintenance of ideological purity
No convocation of the city fathers
No convening of the Sanhedrin
No meeting of the shareholders
No floor debate
No peer pressure
No written permission
No imposition of conformity
No denial of the patently true
No mollusk that is metaphorically an echinoderm
No abstract assemblage legally regarded as a person
No tabulation of quartiles deciles or percentiles
No program of twelve or more steps
No counting of blessings
No catalog
No manifest
No repetition
No log
No table of contents
No memorandum of understanding
No assignment of monetary value to works of art
No list of superfluous institutions
No power of attorney
No virtuosic performance
No troubled savior
No harlot with a heart of gold
No criminal who adheres to a code
No activist screaming at another activist
No king with an unhealable wound
No sighing lover
No scheming servant
No bragging soldier
No coincidental resemblance to persons real or imaginary
No polymorphous perversity
No encyclopedic knowledge of sports places or historical personages
No literal interpretation of scripture
No piety
No mythic origins
No trial by ordeal
No tablets of the law
No fear of the Lord
No propagation of dogma
No examination of conscience
No holy orders
No extreme unction
No application of chrism
No laying on of hands
No crossing of candles
No sprinkling of the fleet
No casting of bread upon the waters
No rubbing of ashes upon the brow
No bwairty thoiai spart chiagma prez eum
No shooting of fish in barrels
No auto of fe
No petition for absolution
No trans- con- or insubstantiation
No pro- re- or intercessional
No iron coffin with spikes on the inside
No sacrifice of objects animal vegetable mineral or artificial
No domesticated hominid gone feral
No litany
No requiem
No paternoster
No benediction
No sacred mystery
No closing of the eyes in holy dread
No vestment medal or scapular
No matin vesper or midnight office
No missal breviary or book of common prayer
No indulgence
No wages of sin
No just deserts
No retribution falsely identified as consequences
No punishment that fits the crime
No guardian angel
No vengeful nemesis
No well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state
No brand management
No modicum of snuff
No butt of sack
No hank of hair
No leash of hounds
No kidney of wheat
No glut of information
No update
No tip
No trick
No hack
No humble opinion
No snide remark
No private joke
No hidden meaning
No figure of Christ concealed within a cake
No sarcasm
No easter egg
No repetition
No special provision
No advice for the love-lorn
No scheme for getting rich quickly
No weird old recipe for losing weight
No dynamic tension
No pampered relaxation
No commercial product commended as decadent
No ordering in the next five minutes
No gift shop
No blurb
No testimonial
No left boot sent on approval
No documentation of author title or publication data
No décor featuring weapons armor or insignias of rank
No emblem of authoritarian policy
No invidious emulation
No universal apathy
No mass hysteria
No competitive exceeding of the speed limit on the public thoroughfare
No entrepreneurial spirit
No objection to adjectival insistence
No denunciation of split infinitives
No censorious commentary
No arcane allusion
No smuggled autobiography
No gratuitous display of erudition
No emotion recollected in tranquility
No spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings
No mechanical operation of the spirit
No squeamish aversion to the gross grody or unsanitary
No caviling
No carping
No fad
No going viral
No smash hit
No trendy fashion
No cast of thousands
No stupendous colossus
No colossal stupendity
No one for the ages
No Procrustean bed
No sword of Damocles
No Euthyphro dilemma
No teasing enigma
No gordian knot
No insoluble conundrum
No repugnant conclusion
No sense of an ending
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