not on
Meaning
not on
(informal, Britain, Australia) Unacceptable or impossible.
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Examples
The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.
God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.
There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.
Depend on your walking stick, not on other people.
Old age comes not on its own.
It was not on one foot that St. Patrick came to Ireland.