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not for all the tea in China



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Not at any price, never, as in I wouldn't give up my car, not for all the tea in China . This term originated in Australia and alludes to the presumed huge quantity of tea in China. [Late 1800s] Also see for all the world ; not for love or money .

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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