At a March 13 news briefing about the US-Israeli war with Iran, US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth proclaimed: âWe will keep pushing, keep advancing, no quarter, no mercy for our enemies.â Of the Oxford English Dictionaryâs few dozen definitions for âquarterâ â covering units of measurement, physical locations and particular parts of things â several are linked to militaries. âQuarterâ is slang for the rank of quartermaster. It can mean lodging for soldiers or the act of housing troops, as in the Third Amendmentâs proscription âin time of peaceâ on allowing troops to âbe quartered in any houseâ without the ownerâs permission. âClose quartersâ can refer to fighting at short distances; a âquarter of assemblyâ was once a point of rendezvous for troops. Since the early 1600s, âquarterâ has also meant the act of showing mercy and sparing the life of an adversary who surrenders in battle. In this context, itâs more common to see âquarterâ used in the negative, in the phrase âno quarter,â as in Hegsethâs comment. The phrase is widely understood to mean taking no prisoners, or rejecting an opponentâs surrender and killing them instead.
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