never in a million years en · ADV
Pronunciation
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Meanings
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(idiomatic) Absolutely not.
“I would never have dreamed in a million years,” he said, “that this would happen.”
2023 April 19, Jesse McKinley, Jay Root, Chelsia Rose Marcius, “Victim’s Father Breaks Down as Bail Is Denied in Wrong-Driveway Shooting”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 20 Apr 2023:“What am I going to do with him, Raj? My stepmother won’t let me keep him at home, especially as the little fella got me suspended from school. That woman hated my hamster, she is never in a million years going to let me keep a rat.”
2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
Translations (8)
pl za diabła (absolutely not) · pt nunquinha (absolutely not) · mi nō(w)hea hoki (absolutely not) · fi ei ikimaailmassa (absolutely not) · pl za chińskiego boga (absolutely not) · he בחיים לא (absolutely not) · tr asla ve kat'a (absolutely not) · th ชาติหน้าตอนบ่าย ๆ (absolutely not)