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not if you paid me
Idioms and Phrases
Under no circumstances, as in I wouldn't jump off the high diving board, not if you paid me . [Late 1800s]Example Sentences
However, she added: "I wouldn't do it again, not if you paid me, it was horrendous, it was a nightmare."
I wouldn't live there, not if you paid me: nasty, beastly, smoky, overcrowded sink of iniquity and disease!
Danger's the word, for I won't deceive you, no, not if you paid me better wages than the old man do give and he's as near as the paring of an inion.
I wouldnât do that, what youâre doinâ, not if you paid me.
Now, both these men paid in notes, tens and fives, and they now lie together in my cash drawer; but I could not tell you which particular notes came from each manâno, not if you paid me the worth of the whole to do it.
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