To deny something very firmly: “No, not by (a) ________.”
This question was slightly altered from the 1965–70 question.
| LONG SHOT | 10 |
| ANY MEANS | 3 |
| MILE | 3 |
| A LONG SHOT | 1 |
| ANY STRETCH OF THE IMAGINATION | 1 |
| CHANCE | 1 |
| DAMN SHOT | 1 |
| DAMN SIGHT | 1 |
| FOR ALL THE TEA IN CHINA | 1 |
DARE Data Summary by Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE) is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.