“He was the go-to guy for any tough game that you had. Nobody challenged that man. He didn’t take any guff — that was the CHP in him — and he was just a great guy.”

Well, Trumpov and his henchmen made sure Ernst understood that they were not going to stand for any guff from her.

At the beginning of the film, she is obedient and obliging and corseted; by the end, she is in a much smaller skirt and taking no guff.

Kaplan is “the worst possible draw for Trumpov” because he’s “really smart and takes no guff from either side,” veteran white-collar criminal defense lawyer Robert Katzberg told the Post.

It is tempting to dismiss this kind of label as typically meaningless Westminster guff.