Phrase with similar meaning to "don't suffer fools gladly/lightly"

I am looking for a phrase that is similar to "he doesn't suffer fools gladly" it is something like "he'd sooner walk through you, than around" likely UK/Irish in origin. I read it in an Irish paper a few years ago to describe someone who was impatient w people and didn't suffer fools lightly. I cannot remember the exact phrase though.

A no-nonsense person.

no-nonsense (MW)

: tolerating no nonsense : serious, businesslike
    a no-nonsense manager

no-nonsense in American

(ˈnoʊˈnɑnsɛns ; nōˈnänˈsens)
adjective
not indulging in or tolerating nonsense, impracticality, etc.; matter-of-fact; practical and serious

Usage:

“He (James “Jim” Egan) was a no nonsense person – he didn't put up with fools.” --Don McLeod, Egan’s biographer

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