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fatso | 11:31 Mon 06th Nov 2006 | Phrases & Sayings
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what is the origion of this saying?
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Not on your Nellie is abbreviated rhyming slang for "puff" - breath - as in "Not on your Nellie Duff" meaning "Not on your life". "Tough Nellie Duff, the strongarm schoolmarm" was a cartoon character in the Dandy or Beano magazines in the 1930s
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