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not on your nelly Definition


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nelly1
noun
    1. old slang
      Now only used in the phrase
Idiom: not on your nelly
    Certainly not.
Etymology: 1940s: perhaps from the phrase ‘not on your Nelly Duff', rhyming slang for ‘puff', meaning ‘life'.



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