Reservations or restrictions; excuses. This expression actually mingles two older ones, ifs and ands with but me no buts. The first, dating from the sixteenth century, was more or less the equivalent of wish- ful thinking, and its most famous version is Charles Kingsley’s rhyme of 1850: “If ifs and ans were pots and pans, there’d be no trade for tinkers.”
Almost as old is “but me no buts,” meaning make no objections or excuses,
which according to Eric Partridge was popularized by Sir Walter Scott’s use
of it in The Antiquary (1816). The current cliché is most often used as a neg-
ative imperative, as in, “I want this done by tomorrow, and no ifs, ands, or
buts.”
The Fexco 2024 concludes by breaking records in visits and economic
activity.
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The International Fair and Exhibition of Cochabamba (Fexco) concluded
yesterday after 11 days of constant and intense activity. Preliminary
figures indi...
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