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Not by any stretch of the imagination

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Strong Negation

Use it to express a very strong or emphatic denial about something's possibility or truth.

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He couldn't have solved that puzzle, not by any stretch of the imagination.
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Idiomatic Context

Understand it's an idiom; knowing individual word meanings doesn't convey its full sense.

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That old car won’t win a race, not by any stretch of the imagination.
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Emotional Emphasis

It often conveys the speaker's strong feelings or convictions about the statement.

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This isn't a good decision, not by any stretch of the imagination.
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