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The idiom "X is all but Y" means "X is very nearly, but not quite, Y." I think of it as "X is in all ways like Y except one last little bit."
by hamburglar 11y ago
The idiom "X is all but Y" means "X is very nearly, but not quite, Y." I think of it as "X is in all ways like Y except one last little bit."