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Idiom

never in a million years

Meaning

Absolutely not.

Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Examples

“I would never in a million years eat that.”

“She told her friend that she would never in a million years agree to go skydiving.”

“He insisted that, never in a million years, would he compromise his principles for a temporary professional advantage.”

Examples

simple

“I would never in a million years eat that.”

contextual

“She told her friend that she would never in a million years agree to go skydiving.”

complex

“He insisted that, never in a million years, would he compromise his principles for a temporary professional advantage.”

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