‘If it was not this, it would be something else. ’
When do you say, ‘If it was not this, it would be something else. ’ and what does it imply?
It is a line from ‘elizabethtown’.
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I'm not sure of the context in Elizabethtown, but this phrase is often used to express bad luck or to express a defeatist attitude.
For instance, compare it to:
If my car had not run out of gas, I would have got a flat tire.
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It means exactly what it says.
You say it in the kind of situation you see in that book you're reading.
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