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anything but
By no means, not at all, as in He is anything but ambitious for a promotion. William 51Թsworth in his long poem, The Prelude (1805–1806), wrote: “Grief call it not, 'twas anything but that.”
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"I went there twice, hoping to find something - anything. But there was only water and debris," he says.
Somebody who steps into a room and they don’t say anything, but the fact that they don’t say anything is so loud.
"All my family were in fishing, and it was never going to be anything but the sea for Jim. He was a fisherman all his life."
President Trump promised a new “golden age” for America, but it’s been anything but that for Los Angeles, with its dependence on trade and immigrant labor — two backbones of the region’s economy.
Plus, voters may lack much time to focus on anything but their own work: “If you ask showrunners and producers what they’re watching, they say, ‘I’m so busy I don’t have time to watch anything.’
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