没门儿

沒門兒
méiménr
phrase

Meanings

  1. 1 no way
  2. 2 not a chance
  3. 3 forget it (Beijing colloquial)

Examples

Jiè qián? Méiménr!
Lend you money? No way!
Xiǎng ràng tā dàoqiàn, méiménr.
Getting him to apologize — not gonna happen.
Xiàyǔ tiān xiǎng dǎ dào chē? Méiménr.
Catch a cab on a rainy day? Fat chance.

Tips

register
Xinhua词典: 方言, lit. 'no door / no way in', i.e. no pathway to getting it done. Snappy Beijing flat-rejection that's crossed fully into nationwide casual speech. More emphatic than 不行 or 不可.
memory
Visualize the (door) slamming: no door = no entry = no chance. The erhua on is obligatory — without it (没门) it literally just means 'no door' and loses the idiomatic force.

Stroke Order

méi
mén
ér