"not on your life" meaning in English

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Adverb

Audio: En-au-not on your life.ogg [Australia]
Head templates: {{head|en|adverb}} not on your life
  1. (idiomatic) Absolutely not; under no circumstances. Tags: idiomatic Synonyms: no chance, not a chance, by no means, no fear, nothing doing, no way, chance'd be a fine thing, not on your nelly Related terms: not touch something with a ten foot pole, over my dead body Translations (an emphatic negative): nooit van mijn leven (Dutch), ei missään nimessä (Finnish), ei tule kuuloonkaan (Finnish), jamais de la vie (French), nō(w)hea hoki (Maori), nigdy w życiu (Polish)

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