Talk:no flies on

RFM discussion: January 2014–February 2015
to no flies on someone.

See WT:TR. DCDuring TALK 13:12, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Oppose. If it's established practice here that we can refer to nonconstituents as "phrases" (as suggested at the discussion linked to above), then I prefer to keep this entry where it is and call it a "phrase" rather than a noun. If I read "there are certainly no flies on him" and didn't know what it meant, no flies on rather than no flies on someone would be what I looked up. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 13:33, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
 * You could certainly make the case that this expression is not "really" a noun as it is virtually exclusively used as part of a predicate, ie, not as a subject of a clause or object of a preposition. DCDuring TALK 18:51, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
 * And the fact that it modifies another noun directly. No noun could syntactically fit in "There are ___ that man." —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 19:28, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
 * I can think of one noun that would fit: no-fly zone. (sorry, I'll go now). By the way, Wiktionary needs an entry for the noun nonconstituent (non-constituent). Pengo (talk) 21:42, 25 January 2014 (UTC)


 * Not moved. - -sche (discuss) 06:51, 5 February 2015 (UTC)