English Explanatory Dictionary

not on your nelly

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adv

not on your life, an emphatic form of no.

Pronunciation

En-au-not on your nelly.ogg

Word forms

not on your nelly not on your Nellie

Etymology

From nelly, Nelly Duff, rhyming slang for puff (of breath = life).

Synonyms

not in a million years not likely not on your life no way no way Jose when pigs fly a cold day in Hell

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