zero tolerance

This page is about the idiom zero tolerance

Meaning

If something is given zero tolerance, it won't be accepted even once.

Because of the school's zero-tolerance policy, our boy was expelled for smoking just one cigarette.
How can a society based on Christian morals and forgiveness of sin have a zero-tolerance approach to petty crime?

This idiom is typically used in American English but may be used in other varieties of English too.

If a zero-tolerance policy on crime is adopted, people are sent to jail after

Contributor: Matt Errey