not on your nelly
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From nelly, Nelly Duff, rhyming slang for puff (of breath = life).
Pronunciation
[edit]Audio (General Australian): (file)
Adverb
[edit]- (idiomatic, chiefly UK) not on your life, an emphatic form of no.
Alternative forms
[edit]Synonyms
[edit]- not in a million years
- not likely
- not on your life
- no way
- no way Jose
- when pigs fly
- a cold day in Hell
Translations
[edit]an emphatic negative
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