There's no telling meaning in English

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Definition

there's no telling...: nobody knows..., we can't be sure... idiom

There's no telling what she'll do now that she has a gun: she could do anything with something like that.

Examples

"There's no telling where we'll be in even two years from now."

Exercise 1

"There's no telling where the Delavigne Corporation will be even 2 years from now."

What does Luna mean by this?

Luna is not permitted to disclose information about the future of the company.

It is impossible to know for sure which direction the company will go in the future.

Information about the company's future is a secret, even to Luna.

It is uncertain whether or not Jean Marron has a future at Delavigne.

I don't know

"There's no telling where the Delavigne Corporation will be even 2 years from now."

What does Luna mean by this?

Luna is not permitted to disclose information about the future of the company.

This is not what this idiom expresses. Information about Delavigne's future is not "secret" or "classified", nor is Luna "not permitted to disclose it". The future of the company is simply uncertain, or undetermined.

It is impossible to know for sure which direction the company will go in the future.

Luna's expression "there's no telling where we'll be..." expresses her inability to predict the future, specifically the impossibility of knowing the future of the company. "There's no telling..." is a common expression used to express uncertainty about the future.

Information about the company's future is a secret, even to Luna.

This is not what this idiom expresses. Information about Delavigne's future is not "secret", just uncertain.

It is uncertain whether or not Jean Marron has a future at Delavigne.

This is not what Luna means when she says "there's no telling where the company will be...". She is not speculating on Jean's future at the company, but rather the future of the company itself.

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