Timeline for "How's things?" or "How are things?"
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| Feb 6 at 19:36 | history | edited | Edwin Ashworth | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
adding example
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| Jul 19, 2019 at 13:46 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | The sense of 'but' here is 'except'. */? It never rains except it pours. (ie aiming for 'It never just rains a little – it always throws it down.') (It's not the illogical but grammatical 'It never rains – but it does pour' sense.) | |
| Jul 19, 2019 at 2:45 | comment | added | learner | I wonder why "it never rains but it pours" ungrammatical. | |
| Dec 21, 2012 at 1:21 | history | answered | Edwin Ashworth | CC BY-SA 3.0 |