not for love nor money

not for love nor money
not for (anything in) the world & not for love nor money & not on your life
Fig. not for anything (no matter what its value). (Note the variation in the examples. The order of

love nor money

is fixed.) •

I won't do it for love nor money.

He said he wouldn't do it—not for the world.


Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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