(not likely)
1not likely! — ► not likely! informal certainly not. Main Entry: ↑likely …
2not likely! — informal certainly not; I refuse Are you going home? Not likely! * * * not ˈlikely! idiom (informal, especially BrE) used to disagree strongly with a statement or suggestion …
3not likely — very little chance, improbable, a slim chance Do you think we ll win the prize? the boy asked. Not likely, his dad replied …
4not likely! — informal certainly not. → likely …
5not likely — spoken used for saying that you or someone else certainly will not do something …
6not likely! — Certainly not! …
7NOT LIKELY — …
8likely — ► ADJECTIVE (likelier, likeliest) 1) such as well might be the case; probable. 2) promising. ► ADVERB ▪ probably. ● a likely story! Cf. ↑a likely story! …
9likely — [līk′lē] adj. likelier, likeliest [ME likly, prob. aphetic < OE geliclic (or < ? ON likligr): see LIKE1 & LY1] 1. apparently true to the facts; credible; probable [a likely cause] 2. seeming as if it would happen or might happen; reasonably …
10not in a month of Sundays — (not) in a month of Sundays if you say that something will not happen in a month of Sundays, you mean that it is not likely to happen. He ll never run the marathon, not in a month of Sundays …
