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单词 not in these trousers
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not in these trousers
P3. colloquial (chiefly British and Australian). not in these trousers: used to express emphatic refusal or great reluctance to do something; ‘certainly not’. Now rare.
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the mind > language > statement > refusal > [adverb]
nasec1350
refusingly1477
negatively1804
rejectingly1832
inadmissibly1847
not in these trousers1910
1910 Manch. Guardian 2 Nov. (City ed.) 5/6 I still would face your Nordenfelts and Mausers—But (as our English friends would aptly say) Not in these trousers!
1931 E. Raymond Mary Leith iv. ii. 318 Tib said, I ought to come along to the meetin' and hear him, but I said, ‘Not in these trousers, old lady.’
1939 J. Cary Mister Johnson 247 You think perhaps we leave the money in the till and you tief 'em. Not in these trousers, Mister Poldedoodle.
1954 Newcastle (New South Wales) Sun 1 Jan. 8/7 ‘Would you care to become a member—subscription £2 2s?’ ‘Not on yer life!..Appeals for this, appeals for that, button-days every week, art unions—don't believe in any of 'em—no, not in these trousers.’
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