Timeline for so much [verb] as [verb]
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| May 19, 2019 at 19:47 | answer | added | janeheroine | timeline score: 1 | |
| May 19, 2019 at 16:23 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | Welcome to ELU, aytug. Good question. +1: I can't quickly find a source mentioning this usage. I'd paraphrase 'The bubble doesn't so much burst as evaporate' as: 'It's not really that the bubble bursts; rather, it evaporates' or 'The bubble doesn't exactly burst – it evaporates'. Peter Jennings goes beyond a paraphrase into an interpretation. / 'in the dictionary' is not precise enough on ELU. In which dictionary / dictionaries | |
| May 19, 2019 at 15:47 | comment | added | aytug2001 | Thank you all for the comments and for the hint :) I think I'm satisfied with the answers lol | |
| May 19, 2019 at 15:20 | comment | added | Chappo Hasn't Forgotten | Gentle hint: you're at liberty to accept any answer as quickly as you like, but accepting the first answer only minutes after it's posted makes it quite unlikely anyone else will bother posting an answer, even if theirs would have been very much better. :-) | |
| May 19, 2019 at 15:11 | vote | accept | aytug2001 | ||
| May 19, 2019 at 15:09 | answer | added | Peter Jennings | timeline score: 3 | |
| May 19, 2019 at 14:57 | comment | added | Anton Sherwood | “not so much as” = “less than”. The bubble bursts less than it evaporates; that is, ‘evaporate’ describes the action better than ’burst’. | |
| May 19, 2019 at 14:33 | history | asked | aytug2001 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |