not on your nelly

cockney rhyming slang for not on your life. nelly rhymes with smelly, which leads to smelly breath, breath leads to breathing to keep alive, leading to not on your life.

Martin: 'will you stroke my furry badger?'

Jon: 'Not on your nelly!'

not on your nelly by MsMatronic August 7, 2005

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not on your nellie

a shortened version of "Nelly Duff". Nelly Duff = puff (breath) in Cockney rhyming slang. 'Not on your Nelly' is used to mean 'Not on your life'. "Breath" is synecdochical for "life"

See:
http://www.english-for-students.com/Cockney-Rhyming-Slang-N.html

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There is no way you are going to get money out of me. Not on your nellie.

not on your nellie by SteveB47 March 25, 2009

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not on your nellie

a yorkshire expression, meaning, you will not go. basically 'i will not'

babs: jean, do you want to go shopping?
jean: not on your nellie love!

not on your nellie by alex-girl January 4, 2009

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