J: What? What does that mean?
Me: Well, think about it. How much tea is there in China?
J: A lot?
Me: Right. And how much money is that tea worth?
J: Lots?
Me: Right. So if I say I wouldn't do something for all the tea in China, what do you think that means?
J: That you wouldn't do it even for lots of money?
Me: Right. It means that I wouldn't do it for anything.
A: You know, in Canada we should say, "not for all the deer in Canada!"
Me: Okay, here's another expression. What do you think it means to say you are doing something "till the cows come home"?
[long, thinking pause]
J: Until you get milk?
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