all but


a phrase which once meant “anything excluding” or “not” but now which means absolutely nothing and is used by yankees to indicate a lack of intelligence unbeknown to them.
paul (from tennessee): i got an 11 on my act…

brutus (from new york): i got a 35, i am all but intelligent.

paul: are you sure they didn’t mix up our tests?

brutus: oh wait, i didn’t even take the act.
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two people that aren’t married, but are “all but” married. they have children, love each other, and live the typical lifestyle of a typical married couple.

commonly, they will have both been married-divorced before, and have subsequently decided that marriage is almost completely unnecessary, outside of possible tax and health-care benefits.
i’d like you to meet my ‘all buts’, crystal. we have one child together, and two by our previous marriages. as a 33 year old man with children i find it pretty lame (and childish) to refer to her has my girlfriend.

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