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by no stretch of the imagination stresses
gen.	при самом большом желании (used to emphasize that something is definitely not the case: by no stretch of the imagination could Carl ever be called good-looking. NOED Alexander Demidov); при всём желании (as much as anyone could imagine; as much as is imaginable. (Often negative.) I don't see how anyone by any stretch of the imagination could fail to understand what my last sentence meant. McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 Alexander Demidov)
idiom.	даже с большой натяжкой (если в другом месте в предложении уже есть отрицание, "by no" трансформируется в "(not) by any"): The Samsung Galaxy S8 isn't the cheapest phone on the market by any stretch of the imagination; in fact, it's one of the most expensive. 4uzhoj); никоим образом (нельзя как-л. назвать / охарактеризовать: In the Baltic Sea in 1959, soldiers near Kolobrzeg on the Polish coast saw the sea become agitated and then a triangular object with sides about 12 feet long came up out of the water, circled over the barracks, and flew away. By no stretch of the imagination could this have been a terrestrial submarine. (Janet & Colin Bord, "Unexplained Mysteries of The 20th Century") ART Vancouver); никак (нельзя как-л. назвать / охарактеризовать: In the Baltic Sea in 1959, soldiers near Kolobrzeg on the Polish coast saw the sea become agitated and then a triangular object with sides about 12 feet long came up out of the water, circled over the barracks, and flew away. By no stretch of the imagination could this have been a terrestrial submarine. (Janet & Colin Bord, "Unexplained Mysteries of The 20th Century") ART Vancouver)