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by no means

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bynomeans

  1. (idiomatic)Certainlynot;definitely not; notby any means.
    By no means am I suggesting that euthanasia should be outlawed, but rather that we should look at its inherent risks.
    Is that all you've got to say? -By no means. Let me explain further.
    • 1856:Gustave Flaubert,Madame Bovary, Part III Chapter XI, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
      Heby no means gave up his shop. On the contrary, he kept well abreast of new discoveries. He followed the great movement of chocolates; he was the first to introduce "cocoa" and "revalenta" into the Seine-Inferieure.
    • 1952 February, H. C. Casserley, “Permanent Wayfarings”, inRailway Magazine, page78:
      Every photographer of experience has his own theories and methods of working, but for the last 14 years I have used a Leica exclusively, and have found it best adapted to the somewhat exacting demands of railway photography, which isby no means an easy branch of the art.
    • 2021 July 28, Christian Wolmar, “Forgotten by the railways, but ripe for the exploring”, inRAIL, number936, page35:
      Well, during our short staycation at Humberston Fitties, just south of Cleethorpes, we cycled through the very unspoilt Lincolnshire Wolds, which areby no means flat and boring as conventional wisdom about the county suggests.

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certainly not

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