Rationality could do everything but make sense of itself.
Polaroid makes a camera that uses Android's operating system for smartphones and does everything but make phone calls.
"Morgan Stanley's senior investment banker did everything but make the phone calls himself," the Massachusetts regulator said in a statement, referring to Mr. Grimes.
When there is a power failure we have to reprogram appliances from the microwave to the fax machine, which does everything but make espresso.
As the Swiss political theorist Jean-Louis de Lolme put it in his – not uncritical – 1771 book on the English constitution: "Parliament can do everything but make a woman a man and a man a woman".
When a Facebook executive called analysts after the company filed an amended prospectus that detailed a slowdown in revenue, "Morgan Stanley's senior investment banker did everything but make the phone calls himself," the regulator said.
"Sebastian can do everything but make the ball sing," said Tom Konchalski, the editor of High School Basketball Insider Report, who for 25 years has been one of New York's most respected talent scouts.
"The idea of 'Don't look to a diet book to fix everything but make small changes to what you're already doing' is one I'd like to see more of," she said.
