never in a million years

English

(idiomatic) Absolutely not.
- 2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
  “What am I going to do with him, Raj? My stepmother won’t let me keep him at home, especially as the little fella got me suspended from school. That woman hated my hamster, she is never in a million years going to let me keep a rat.”
- 2023 April 19, Jesse McKinley, Jay Root, Chelsia Rose Marcius, “Victim’s Father Breaks Down as Bail Is Denied in Wrong-Driveway Shooting”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:
  “I would never have dreamed in a million years,” he said, “that this would happen.”

absolutely not