not for all the tea in China

I wouldn't have this girl's job - not for all the tea in China!

You won't get him stopping here, not for all the tea in China.

Not for all the tea in China. "

"I tell you one thing, though, sir: you wouldn't get me up on one of those little crates, not for all the tea in China.

I couldn't- I wouldn't swim in there not for all the tea in China and-" "Go," Durell said and shoved her into the yawning half circle that protruded above the river's surface.

We had perhaps helped to save Melly Moores's life by taking John to her, and I wouldn't have changed that ("not for all the tea in China," as we used to say back in those days), but in the end we were going to hit the canvas and the ref was going to count us out.