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anything but
Idioms and Phrases
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.”Example Sentences
All that leads to a straightforward messaging problem with anything but an easy answer: Over the decades, climate scientists have been striving to improve on their ability to be “certain” about the causes and impacts of climate change.
Providing such a range is anything but an “admission” of some kind, or a call to “wait and see” before we can be more certain.
While the government of Canada may not have changed hands, the federal election results are anything but business as usual.
“The Democratic Party, who has presented itself as the resistance, has up to this point done anything but resist.”
"No one was really thinking about anything but making sure everyone was safe."
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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