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for the life of one
Prepositional phrase
colloquial
Japanese Meaning
（否定文とともに使われる表現）たとえ自分の命をかけても、全く（〜できない・理解できないなどの意味で）という強調表現 / （口語表現として）どうしても〜しない、全く〜できないという意味合い
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(colloquial, only with a negative) Even if one's (own) life depended on it; at all.
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for the life of one
I couldn't, for the life of one, remember where I'd parked the car.
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I couldn't, for the life of one, remember where I'd parked the car.
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