no way!, yeah right!, I don't think so! · not on your life!, I don't think so!, whatever!
köken: First attested in c. 1928. An alteration of ammenooitniet, itself a minced oath from aan mijn reet (“(at) my arse”), probably derived from Amanoellah, from Dari [Term?], from Arabic أَمَان الله (ʔamān allāh), referring to the Afghan king Amanullah Khan, who went on a widely reported tour of Europe in 1927-1928 and had to flee Afghanistan following an uprising in 1929. The interjection was…
We zijn voor zonne-energie, zeggen de oliemaatschappijen. Ammehoela!
Ik moet om elf uur thuis zijn, maar mijn lift gaat pas om twaalf uur weg, dus ammehoela!
zıt: εν εναντία περιπτώσει, older spelling: ἐν ἐναντίᾳ περιπτώσει
köken: A calque of French en tout cas. Katharevousa set phrase (polytonic spelling: ἐν πάσῃ περιπτώσει) with preposition ἐν (en, “in”), the feminine singular dative πάσῃ (pásēi) of πᾶς (pâs, “everyone”) & περίπτωσις (períptōsis, “encountering”) -modern περίπτωση (períptosi, “case, instance”)-.