NOT BY A JUG FULL, phr. (common).—Not by a good deal, by long chalks, by no means.
1834. SEBA SMITH (‘Major Downing’), Jack Downing’s Letters, ii. 43. And every part of Downingville all day would smell as sweet as a rose. But ’taint so in New-York, aunt Keziah, not by a JUG-FULL.
1838–40. HALIBURTON (‘Sam Slick’), The Clockmaker, 3 S., ch. xviii. The last mile, he said, tho’ the shortest one of the whole bilin’, took the longest [time] to do it by a JUG FULL.
