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Idiom

not in a million

Meaning

Alternative form of never in a million years.

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

Examples

“I would not do that, not in a million years.”

“He asked if I would ever move back to that cold city, but I said not in a million years.”

“When the journalist suggested that the politician might resign, the spokesperson laughed and insisted that such an event would not happen, not in a million years.”

Examples

simple

“I would not do that, not in a million years.”

contextual

“He asked if I would ever move back to that cold city, but I said not in a million years.”

complex

“When the journalist suggested that the politician might resign, the spokesperson laughed and insisted that such an event would not happen, not in a million years.”

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