not on your life
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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
I'm goin' to turn in now, an' I don't attack thunderin' great grey wolf-dogs while I'm undressin'; not on your life I don't; so jest you take a rest, son.
From Finn The Wolfhound by Buxton, Robert Hugh
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