Category:English negative polarity items
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English terms that are chiefly or always used with a negation.
These are the opposite of positive polarity items; see Category:English positive polarity items. See also 
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Pages in category "English negative polarity items"
The following 200 pages are in this category, out of 350 total.
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B
- backward in coming forward
- bat an eye
- bat an eyelid
- bean
- beans
- be born yesterday
- be bothered
- believe one's own eyes
- believe one's ears
- believe one's eyes
- best pleased
- be worried
- biggy
- bite the hand that feeds one
- blind
- blind bit
- brain surgeon
- brain surgery
- break a sweat
- breathe a word
- brook
- budge an inch
- by any stretch of the imagination
- by halves
C
- can't be bothered
- can't be fucked
- can't carry a tune in a bucket
- can't get enough
- can't help
- can't seem
- can't stand
- can't stand the sight of
- can't wait
- cannot away with
- cannot but
- cannot help but
- care
- care a button
- CCE
- change horses in midstream
- clever
- could not care less
- could not get elected dogcatcher
- couldn't be more different
- couldn't care less
- couldn't carry a note in a bucket
- couldn't happen to a nicer
- couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery
- couldn't stop a pig in a passage
- cry over spilt milk
- cup of tea
- cut ice
- cut it
- cut the mustard
- cut out
D
- damn
- day at the beach
- disarray
- do by halves
- don't ask, don't tell
- don't be a stranger
- don't do anything I wouldn't do
- don't get above your raising
- don't get me wrong
- don't get someone started
- don't get your meat where you get your bread
- don't go there
- don't let the bedbugs bite
- don't let the door hit you on the way out
- don't look a gift horse in the mouth
- don't shit where you eat
- do not pass go, do not collect $200
- do not pass go, do not collect £200
- don't call us, we'll call you
- dry eye
F
G
- gaf
- get a word in edgewise
- get one's head around
- get the memo
- getting any
- getting enough
- give a crap
- give a damn
- give a darn
- give a fig
- give a flying fuck
- give a light
- give a shit
- give a stuff
- give a tinker's cuss
- give a tinker's damn
- give a toss
- give two hoots
- give two shits
- give a fuck
- go astray
- goddamn
H
I
K
- kelter
- kick someone out of bed
- kilter
- know A from B
- know B from a battledore
- know beans about
- know from a bar of soap
- know one's arse from one's elbow
- know one's ass from a hole in the ground
- know one's ass from one's elbow
- know shit from Shinola
- know someone from a can of paint
- know someone from Adam
- know whether one is Arthur or Martha
- know which end is up
L
M
N
- need
- never look a gift horse in the mouth
- never the twain shall meet
- never the wiser
- no brainer
- no contact, no contract
- no doubt
- no flies on
- no fuss, no muss
- no great shakes
- no guts, no glory
- no harm, no foul
- no holds barred
- no horse in that race
- no horse in this race
- no laughing matter
- no love lost
- no mean feat
- no one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public
- no one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American people
- no one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public
- no pain, no gain
- no prize pig