anything BUT

Newguest
Hi

"...anything BUT idealism is a choice to be half ***"

What does the phrase "anything but..." mean?

Also: "half ***" means "quite stupid"???

thank you

This ia a fragment of a sentence that makes little sense to me, and I can't tell what preceeds "anything". However, "anything but" is an expression us

That's the whole passage:

"In my opinion, anything BUT idealism is a choice to be half ***. There is nothing realistic about being half ***, which means lacking an inner push."

Could you make the above clearer?

I assume the quotation is a response to someone who has said they are not an idealist but a realist.

A paraphrase would be:

I think that if you do not choose to hold on to dreams and goals which are hard, or even impossible, to reach, then you are by default choosing to settle for the status quo. There is nothing pragmatic or noble about settling for the status quo - it just mea

So it is a praise of idealism, isn't it?

NewguestThat's the whole passage:

"In my opinion, anything BUT idealism is a choice to be half ***. There is nothing realistic about being half ***, which means lacking an inner push."

Could you make the above clearer?

I read it several times forward and backward and I still can’t extract the e

Hi guys,

"In my opinion, anything BUT idealism is a choice to be half ***. There is nothing realistic about being half ***, which means lacking an inner push."

Could you make the above clearer?

'To be' here is used in the sense of 'to become, to exist as', eg Tom

thanks for your explanation guys!