not in a million

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Adverb

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not in a million (not comparable)

  1. (idiomatic) Alternative form of never in a million years
    • 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 75:
      Now he was saying with immense satisfaction, "Why, if a man was to have his pick, he couldn't get a better place than this. Not a blanky soul for miles, that I could see. Why, a man could practically bury himself in a place like this and no one would guess where he was in a million."