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not if you paid me

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  1. Under no circumstances, as in I wouldn't jump off the high diving board, not if you paid me. [Late 1800s]


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However, she added: "I wouldn't do it again, not if you paid me, it was horrendous, it was a nightmare."

From BBC Jun. 24, 2022

I wouldn't live there, not if you paid me: nasty, beastly, smoky, overcrowded sink of iniquity and disease!

From Peccavi by Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)

"Never again; not if you paid me a guinea a stitch."

From A Knight of the Nets by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston

If you think I'm going to let this pass you're making a mighty mistake," she continued, "which I wouldn't do not if you paid me all the gold in the kingdom.

From Jeremy by Walpole, Hugh, Sir

I wouldn’t do that, what you’re doin’, not if you paid me.

From More Jonathan Papers by Morris, Elisabeth Woodbridge

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