| 单词 | not but what |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnot but what (d) (With unexpressed non-referential it and copula) not but what: (affirming the statement in the dependent clause) it is not but that, (sometimes also) it is not to say but that. Cf. but conj. 10a. ΚΠ 1756 tr. Mod. Observ. Antient Hist.: Chapter 4 18 Not but what they entertained shrewd Suspicions of the Part which Demosthenes and Astius were now playing. 1814 W. Scott Waverley I. vi. 88 Not but what I would go to—(what was I going to say?) to the plantations for the church with pleasure. 1883 E. Fitzgerald Let. 9 Apr. in A. C. Benson E. Fitzgerald (1905) i. 19 Never having read his father's [poems]..till drawn to them by me... Not but what he loved and admired his father in every shape but that. 1894 G. Du Maurier Trilby (1895) vi. 284 Not but what many changes had been wrought. 1908 R. Bagot Anthony Cuthbert xxi. 257 You should have kept quiet in the house to-day. Not but what you are certainly looking better than you did early this morning. 1937 D. L. Sayers Busman's Honeymoon (1968) vii. 117 Not but what it'll be a kind of busman's holiday for you. 1984 S. Keery Last Romantic out of Belfast (2011) xi. 126 Not but what all that family was in fact rotten with consumption. 2011 A. Elliott Pemberley to Waterloo 181 Not but what I'm certain our lads will give old Boney's lot a grand beating tomorrow. < as lemmas |
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