What's surprising about "Girls Ain't Nothing But Trouble" is that it's about a false rape accusation. In the song, Smith wines and dines a young lady who then screams rape, takes his wallet and runs. The cops show up and arrest him for aggravated assault. nothing but From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English nothing but only She'd had nothing but bad luck. → nothing Examples from the Corpus nothing but • They saw nothing but a dim grayness, or was it blackness? • His death was nothing but an absurd, ludicrous accident. • They did nothing but argue for the whole journey. The mean­ing of "noth­ing but" in Eng­lish is closely re­lated to the usage of "but" in all/any­thing/every­thing but, which is more id­iomatic, how­ever. "But" in the ex­pres­sion "noth­ing but" means "ex­cept", i.e. "noth­ing but" is just a more em­phatic way of say­ing "noth­ing ex­cept", "only"; for ex­am­ple We could see nothing but fog. 1. To the exclusion of all else. Tom talks about nothing but sports whenever I see him. My toddler is so fussy. At the moment, he'll eat nothing but cheese and drink nothing but apple juice. 2. A large quantity of or exclusively (the thing that has just been inquired about). Typically used hyperbolically. A: "Do you have any extra pens?" Vay Tiền Nhanh Ggads.

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