# Not for all the x in y! **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 4, 2014, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-for-all-the-x-in-y/706309 "2014-12-04T13:22:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mr.Kobayashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4af34b/32.png) [@Mr.Kobayashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Kobayashi)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2014, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-for-all-the-x-in-y/706309/1 "2014-12-04T13:22:11Z")
You know the saying, when someone vehemently refuses something and not even all the _something_ in _something_ would change their mind. “All the tea in China” is the most common variation, “…all the apple sauce in Glückenschabbel” is the Rainier Wolfcastle’s take, [Paxman](http://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/jeremy-paxman-approached-by-tory-mps-who-want-him-to-stand-as-mayor-of-london-9889582.html) rejected the option of running for London mayor “not for all the eclairs in Paris”. What’s your favourite variation on the phrase, or one that you’d use? For some reason I like like alcohol variations, “not for all the Scotch in Speyside” is my usual go-to. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2014, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-for-all-the-x-in-y/706309/2 "2014-12-04T13:39:43Z")
I usually create one taylored to the situation. Sorry. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2014, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-for-all-the-x-in-y/706309/3 "2014-12-04T14:04:12Z")
Not for all the pencils in Pennsylvania. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Kobayashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4af34b/32.png) [@Mr.Kobayashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Kobayashi)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2014, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-for-all-the-x-in-y/706309/4 "2014-12-04T14:06:42Z")
> [@Count\_Blucher](#): > > I usually create one taylored to the situation. Sorry. So you wouldn’t give an answer for all the hypotheticals on the Dope? ---
**Author:** ![Iggy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iggy/32/3364_2.png) [@Iggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iggy)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2014, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-for-all-the-x-in-y/706309/5 "2014-12-04T14:27:06Z")
Not for all the Rum in the Caribbean. ---
**Author:** ![Grey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@Grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grey)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2014, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-for-all-the-x-in-y/706309/6 "2014-12-04T17:05:54Z")
> [@Count\_Blucher](#): > > I usually create one taylored to the situation. Sorry. I can’t tell if this is supposed to be a clever math joke or not. If it is, well bravo! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2014, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-for-all-the-x-in-y/706309/7 "2014-12-04T17:40:18Z")
Frank Barone: “Not for all the tea in China, nor for all the Chinese waitresses who bring the tea”. ---
**Author:** ![Greg\_Charles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@Greg\_Charles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greg_Charles)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2014, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-for-all-the-x-in-y/706309/8 "2014-12-04T18:54:30Z")
Google completes “not for all the” with: love in the world tea in China money in the world nickels in Jupiter It’s interesting, and sort of touching, that love beats out money. The nickels in Jupiter surprised me, but it’s an apparent reference an online comic called _Schlock Mercenary_. ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2014, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-for-all-the-x-in-y/706309/9 "2014-12-04T19:13:45Z")
Being as I am from the southern USofA and Georgia in particular, I am quite fond of: “Not for all the grits in Georgia!” ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2014, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-for-all-the-x-in-y/706309/10 "2014-12-04T19:21:57Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > Not for all the pencils in Pennsylvania. 🙂 I’m alternating between booing and laughing. I’m absolutely stealing this. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2014, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-for-all-the-x-in-y/706309/11 "2014-12-04T19:30:13Z")
“Not for all the Hookers in Vegas” ---
**Author:** ![Lubricious\_Integument](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/82dd89/32.png) [@Lubricious\_Integument](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lubricious_Integument)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2014, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-for-all-the-x-in-y/706309/12 "2014-12-04T19:37:11Z")
“I wouldn’t trade places with Edmund Exley right now for all the whiskey in Ireland.”-- Captain Dudley Smith ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2014, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-for-all-the-x-in-y/706309/13 "2014-12-04T22:11:58Z")
Well, there’s Dylan’s verse from “I Shall Be Free No. 10”: I’m liberal but to a degree I want everyone to be free But if you think I’ll let Barry Goldwater Move in next door or marry my daughter You must think I’m crazy! I wouldn’t let him do it for all the farms in Cuba! ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2014, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-for-all-the-x-in-y/706309/14 "2014-12-04T22:46:28Z")
Not for all the maple syrup in Canada! ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2014, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-for-all-the-x-in-y/706309/15 "2014-12-05T00:35:30Z")
“I wouldn’t \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ for a free weekend in Pismo Beach!” Had a friend who was fond of using that line. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2014, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-for-all-the-x-in-y/706309/16 "2014-12-06T16:30:01Z")
“Not for all the X on the Internet.” X can be: cat videos, porn, etc. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2014, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-for-all-the-x-in-y/706309/17 "2014-12-07T11:06:32Z")
All the honey in Tupelo? ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2014, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-for-all-the-x-in-y/706309/18 "2014-12-07T16:18:23Z")
This sounds like the cousin of the remark “what’s that got to do with the price of x in y?” Soccer balls in Argentina? ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2014, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-for-all-the-x-in-y/706309/19 "2014-12-07T20:20:21Z")
> [@Bayard](#): > > I’m alternating between booing and laughing. I’m absolutely stealing this. Feel free! I’m sure I stole it from somewhere myself - even if, when I was maybe 5, I actually thought Pennsylvania had that name because that was where pencils came from. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2014, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-for-all-the-x-in-y/706309/20 "2014-12-08T01:13:28Z")
The Warners made that joke in _Animaniacs._ Being cartoons, they came from pencils, so obviously (?) “Pencilvania” was their ancestral homeland. OP, how about, “Not for all the Karo pies in Dixie.”? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-for-all-the-x-in-y/706309.md?page=2)