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not on your life
Idioms and Phrases
Certainly not, as in Go hang-gliding? Not on your life . The first recorded use of this interjection was in 1896.Example Sentences
“She teased back something to the effect of ‘Not on your life.’
Normally, I would have said not on your life, especially since we weren’t even sure if he was a vampire.
Every bit of humanity says not on your life.
Except perhaps among the 1%, not on your life.
Let’s say you’d like to get yourself a shot of prevention, but your parents say, “not on your life.”
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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