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if it weren't for

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if it weren't for someone/something
the situation would have been different without someone or something. If it weren't for him, I would probably be living on the streets. I'd keep a garden if it weren't for having too much to do.
Usage notes: also used in the form if it hadn't been for someone or something: If it hadn't been for Judy, Betsy was sure she would have left the city.


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If it weren't for the children, I wouldn't mind anything.
If it were not for this baldness, and a kind of crapulous air I can't disguise from myself - if it weren't for this and that and t'other thing - I - I've forgot what I was saying.
"He couldn't work if it weren't for capital," the Bishop interrupted.
 
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