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by_no_means

by no means

English

Prepositional phrase

by no means

(idiomatic) certainly not; definitely not.
By no means am I suggesting that euthanasia should be outlawed, but rather that we should look at its inherent risks.
- 1856: Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part III Chapter XI, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
  He by 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.

Translations

certainly not

Chinese:
Mandarin: 絕不 (zh), 绝不 (zh) ‎(juébù), 決不 (zh), 决不 (zh) ‎(juébù)
Dutch: zeker niet, in geen geval
Finnish: ei suinkaan, ei missään nimessä
French: en aucun cas (fr), aucunement (fr)
Georgian: არანაირად ‎(aranairad)
German: keineswegs (de), auf keinen Fall (de)
Icelandic: alls ekki (is)

Italian: a nessun patto
Japanese: 決して ‎(けっして, kesshite) (+ negative)
Latin: nullo modo, minimē (la)
Macedonian: во никој случај ‎(vo nikoj slučaj)
Portuguese: de modo algum
Russian: нико́им о́бразом не ‎(nikóim óbrazom ne), отню́дь не (ru) ‎(otnjúdʹ ne), ниско́лько не (ru) ‎(niskólʹko ne), ника́к не (ru) ‎(nikák ne)
Serbo-Croatian:
Roman: naravno da ne
Spanish: de ninguna manera
Turkish: asla (tr), ne olursa olsun, hiçbir şekilde

See also

by all means
by no stretch