"not on your nelly" meaning in English

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Adverb

Audio: En-au-not on your nelly.ogg
Etymology: From nelly, Nelly Duff, rhyming slang for puff (of breath = life). Head templates: {{head|en|adverb}} not on your nelly
  1. (idiomatic, chiefly UK) not on your life, an emphatic form of no. Tags: UK, idiomatic Synonyms: not on your Nellie, 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 (an emphatic negative): nōhea hoki (Maori), nōwhea hoki (Maori), ni za živu glavu (Serbo-Croatian)

Alternative forms

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