ANYTHING BUT

Definition: ANYTHING BUT

ANYTHING BUT

1. Not at all or in any respect. ``The battle was a rare one, and the victory anything but secure.'' --Hawthorne.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Crosswords: ANYTHING BUT

I can't feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life. (American Beauty; writing credit: Alan Ball)

Don't kid yourself, Francesca: you are anything but a simple woman. (The Bridges of Madison County; writing credit: Richard LaGravenese)

: Doves are anything but holy. (The Others; writing credit: Alejandro Amenábar)

I can stand anything but pain! (The Band Wagon; writing credit: Betty Comden; Adolph Green)

I can be talked out of anything but sex. (Grapevine; writing credit: David Frankel)

But you don't bring me anything but down (Anything But Down; performing artist: Sheryl Crow)

I can't care about anything but you (Lovefool; performing artist: The Cardigans; writing credit: Persson, Svensson)

You can do anything but lay off of my blue suede shoes. ("Blue Suede Shoes"; performing artist: Carl Perkins)

Anything but Sue! (A Boy Named Sue; performing artist: Johnny Cash)

And when it comes to thinkin' about anything but my baby (Too Busy Thinking About My Baby; performing artist: Marvin Gaye)

Baby I Can't Give You Anything But Love (1940)

I'll Do Anything But... (1992)

Anything But Love (1989)

Anything But Down (performing artist: Sheryl Crow)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• When You Eat at the Refrigerator, Pull Up a Chair: 50 Ways to Feel Thin, Gorgeous, and Happy (When You Feel Anything But) (reference)

• You Can Postpone Anything but Love (reference)

• When You Eat at the Refrigerator, Pull Up a Chair: Fifty Ways to Feel Thin, Gorgeous, and Happy (When You Feel Anything But) [ABRIDGED] (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Anything but that!. Credit: Library of Congress.

Too much Christmas? gosh, no! anything but!. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

To Arthur, however, the newcomer was, I saw clearly, anything but welcome.

What a sublime and sweet thing is hope in a child who has never known anything but despair!

They have no remembrance of anything but what they learned and observed in their youth and middle age, and even that is very imperfect.

He has no time to be anything but a machine.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

You may have to follow a special diet for a few days or fast (not eat or drink anything but water) for a few hours before you take the test. Ask your doctor or nurse if you have to follow any special instructions before you get tested. (references)

If your physician determines that you should take the complete 3hour glucose tolerance test, you will be asked to follow some special instructions in preparation for the test. For 3 days before the test, eat a diet that contains at least 150 grams of carbohydrates each day. This can be accomplished by including one cup of pasta, two servings of fruit, four slices of bread, and three glasses of milk every day. For 10 to 14 hours before the test you should not eat and not drink anything but water. (references)

Business

With more than 800 manufacturers and distributors of information technologies and 1,500 multimedia firms, the competitive environment of Germany is anything but easy. Being the largest market in Europe results in German distributors of IT products being inundated with offers of new products, allowing them the luxury of cherry picking products they wish to represent. (references)

Civil Liberties

Equatorial Guinea

The Government generally withholds access to domestic broadcasting from opposition parties and rarely refers to the opposition in anything but negative terms when broadcasting the news; however, in February Television Asonga granted a 30-minute interview to opposition leader Placido Miko, and aired segments of the CPDS congress in Bata. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Chinese 

不妙 (anything but reassuring, far from good, not too encouraging). (various references)

Dutch

bruiklener (borrower of anything but money which he or she undertakes to return unimpaired). (various references)

Finnish

kaikkea muuta kuin .. (various references)

French

commodataire (borrower of anything but money which he or she undertakes to return unimpaired). (various references)

German

Entleiher (borrower), Empfänger einer unentgeltlich dargeliehenen Sache (borrower of anything but money which he or she undertakes to return unimpaired). (various references)

Hungarian

mindent csak azt nem (anything but that). (various references)

Italian

comodatario (borrower of anything but money which he or she undertakes to return unimpaired). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

無芸大食 (lacking the talent to do anything but eat). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

む�'いたいしょく (lacking the talent to do anything but eat). (various references)

Pig Latin

anythingay utbay

Portuguese

tudo menos. (various references)

Romanian

orice în afarã de. (various references)

Spanish

todo menos. (various references)

Swedish

låntagare av en vederlagsfritt utlånad bestämd sak (borrower of anything but money which he or she undertakes to return unimpaired). (various references)

Turkish

hiç değil (not a bit, not at all), dışında bir şey. (various references)

Ukranian 

усе, що завгодно, тільки не. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: unhatting.

-3 letters: abutting, anything, attuning, haunting, nutating, taunting.

-4 letters: annuity, antibug, antigun, bathing, batting, bunting, butting, hanting, hatting, hunting, hutting, naughty, nutting, tabuing, tauting, tything, untying.

-5 letters: abying, anting, baning, bating, baying, buying, gnatty, guanin, hagbut, hating, haying, naught, nighty, nutant, taught, tubing, tuning, tyning, unhang.

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