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"not on your life, an emphatic form of no."
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"(idiomatic, chiefly UK) not on your life, an emphatic form of no."
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"word": "not in a million years"
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"word": "not on your life"
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"sense": "an emphatic negative",
"word": "nōhea hoki"
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"word": "nōwhea hoki"
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"sense": "an emphatic negative",
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"word": "a cold day in Hell"
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"code": "mi",
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"sense": "an emphatic negative",
"word": "nōhea hoki"
},
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"code": "mi",
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"sense": "an emphatic negative",
"word": "nōwhea hoki"
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"sense": "an emphatic negative",
"word": "ni za živu glavu"
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