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not if you paid me

Idioms  
  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

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

From Project Gutenberg

Danger's the word, for I won't deceive you, no, not if you paid me better wages than the old man do give and he's as near as the paring of an inion.

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

Now, both these men paid in notes, tens and fives, and they now lie together in my cash drawer; but I could not tell you which particular notes came from each man—no, not if you paid me the worth of the whole to do it.

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