not on adj.
socially unacceptable, impossible.
![]() | With Australians in Korea 251: General Everest realized that escape and survival as we knew it in World War II was just ‘not on’ in Korea. | |
![]() | Stop it, Whoever You Are (1962) Act II: You’ll see for yourself the sort of thing I have to put up with. It’s not on, you know. | |
![]() | Prisoner’s Tale 49: Lynn recognised right off what the con was doing [...] It wasn’t on, he decided. | |
![]() | Traveller’s Tool 31: Ermine and heavy jewel-encrusted hats are ‘not on’ in egalitarian Australia. | |
![]() | Iced 169: The boy’s got me seeing spiders. And that ain’t on! | |
![]() | Breakfast on Pluto 24: Inserting one’s wee man into these rasher-drying ladies — well, it simply wasn’t on. | |
![]() | Powder 442: He’d love to be able to thank them, but . . . it just wasn’t on. | |
![]() | Layer Cake 125: A couple of boys spoke to his mates, told ’em givin evidence was not on. | |
![]() | Aussie Bible 39: John said, ‘What you’ve done is that wrong. It’s not on’. |