- not on your Nellie!
- Exclam. No way! Not on your life! A shortening of the rhyming slang not on your nellie duff, where nellie duff rhymes on puff which refers tolife, hence not on your life. 1940s
English slang and colloquialisms. 2014.
not on your Nellie!
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