not by any manner of means

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not by any manner of means

  1. Synonym of by no manner of means.
    • 1861, Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, volume 64, page 587:
      Of subject and invention we have still very little. These we can only obtain from inventors or men of genius — not a bespeakable class by any manner of means.
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