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not on your life

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  1. Certainly not, as in Go hang-gliding? Not on your life. The first recorded use of this interjection was in 1896.

Example Sentences

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Every bit of humanity says not on your life.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2022

Except perhaps among the 1%, not on your life.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 14, 2021

"Would I like to live in the past, not on your life," he says.

From BBC • Sep. 23, 2013

Normally, I would have said not on your life, especially since we weren’t even sure if he was a vampire.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall

Not that I would invite you to take dinner with me, so that you could have me make you a loan, not on your life.

From The Goose Man by Porterfield, Allen Wilson

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