In Ifs or Buts?
Also, No Ifs, Ands, or Buts. No Reservations, Restrictions, or Excuses, as in You'd Better Be There Tomorrow, and No Ifs, Ands, or Buts About It. This...
Also, no ifs, ands, or buts. No reservations, restrictions, or excuses, as in You'd better be there tomorrow, and no ifs, ands, or buts about it. This expression uses the conjunctions to stand for the conditions and objections that they introduce.
How do you write ifs and buts?
- In a 500-mile race, there are so many ifs and buts,
- "There are still a lot of ifs and buts, " one diplomat said.
- He lives in the here and now, not in the ifs and buts.
- The ifs and buts have to be dancing in Biggio's head.
- There were lots of ifs and buts in the Karachi test.
Why is there no ifs or buts?
The expression no ifs, ands or buts is often used as a warning that the speaker will not accept any excuses from the listener for not accomplishing a task. To make an illustration, a father may insist to his son that he must clean up his room, no ifs ands or buts.
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