not on your life
Definition of not on your life
informal
—used as a very forceful way of saying “no” or “never” Do the government's policies really help the average worker? Not on your life.
From the M-W Editors
Word by Word Definitions
: of or relating to you or yourself or yourselves especially as possessor or possessors , agent or agents , or object or objects of an action
: of or relating to one or oneself
: used with little or no meaning almost as an equivalent to the definite article the
: the quality that distinguishes a vital and functional being from a dead body
: a principle or force that is considered to underlie the distinctive quality of animate beings
: an organismic state characterized by capacity for metabolism (see metabolism 1), growth, reaction to stimuli, and reproduction
: of or relating to animate being
: lifelong
: using a living model
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