Ah, gentle reader; I have been on the alert for the “no truck with” slangism since the 1990s, and I have come across it twice in books I’m reading or I have recently read, one from the 1920s and one translated in 2007 (you’ll see in the book reports, gentle reader, eventually).
But I also want to point out that the inestimable Kim du Toit used the very phrase today:
Needless to say, the U.S. will have no truck with this nonsense — at least, the current generation of U.S. leaders won’t….
Have I ever seen the phrase where someone or something has truck with? No, it’s always the negative.
MfBJN will keep you up-to-date on appearances of this phrase. Check back often!
