6 I still don’t understand why “all but” means (almost) “only” Submitted by victoria at April 27, 2024, 8:43 AM in just_post 3 comments
1 hollyhoppet wrote at April 27, 2024, 7:25 PM i'm no linquistic scholar but i have a hunch the idiom has outlasted some sort of semantic evolution of the words "all" and/or "but" Reply Permalink
hollyhoppet wrote
i'm no linquistic scholar but i have a hunch the idiom has outlasted some sort of semantic evolution of the words "all" and/or "but"