cept

(one) did everything (one) could 'cept eat (someone)

One treated someone very harshly or severely. "'Cept" is an informal shortening of "except." When Mama found out we had disobeyed her, she was furious and did everything she could 'cept eat us.
See also: could, did, eat, everything
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

did everything he could 'cept eat us

Rur. acted very hostilely. When it came time to pass sentence on the criminal, the judge did everything he could 'cept eat him.
See also: could, did, eat, everything, he
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • (one) did everything (one) could 'cept eat (someone)
  • did everything he could 'cept eat us
  • prostie
  • prosties
  • stat
  • stats
  • everything
  • reg
  • cig
  • us
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High tariff countries' reluctance to reduce revenues by promoting the CEPT, and
Similar to CEPT, the Organization of American States is a regional body with members from North, Central and South America.
Hold On, We're Strummin' boasts thirteen new Grisman/Bush compositions in addition to Ralph Stanley's "Banjo Special" and Jethro Burns's Monroe tribute "'Cept Old Bill".
In the words of art critic Guy Brett, "This was a figure for the process by which Brazil 'swallowed' various world cultures in order to create its own, not in a predatory fashion but in a spirit of anti-colonialist rebellion." Andrade's oral metaphor took such hold almost half a century later that artist Helio Oiticica would define the resistance of Brazilian culture to external influences-its ability to ingest other cultural information instead of succumbing to some international style--as a kind of "super-cannibalism." And Lygia Clark considers the con cept overtly in works such as Cannibalismo (Cannibalism) and Baba antropofagica (Cannibalistic slobber; both 1973).
Take the Ford Expedition Wagner chose as his proof-of-con cept vehicle.
The Common Effective Preferential Tariff (CEPT) scheme for AFTA requires that tariff rates levied on a wide range of products traded within the region be reduced to no more than 5%, and that quantitative restrictions and other non-tariff barriers are also eliminated.
1 last year, but it reneged, causing ASEAN economic ministers to agree to a deferment under a protocol to the Common Effective Preferential Tariff (CEPT) scheme for the ASEAN Free Trade Area.
Thailand is a member of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) that is creating the ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA), including a tariff reduction scheme called the Common Effective Preferential Tariff (CEPT) pact.
CEPT (also non-CEPT): Conference of European Posts and Telecommunications.
Disaster is the next port of call, 'cept for those who fight for spoils.
Note: The reserve method of accounting for bad debts (former IRC section 166(c)) was repealed, ex* cept for certain financial institutions, by the Tax Reform Act of 1986.
A Combined Effluent Treatment Plant (CEPT), built at a cost of over Rs 1 billion on SHC's 2010 order for treatment of SITE's toxic waste water before releasing it in the canal, remains dysfunctional since its belated completion in 2017.
The commission has gotten approved the establishment of five combined effluent treatment plants (CEPT) in Karachi.
Amu said owners of the allotted plots in the industrial city will have to bear the construction cost of the CEPT and pay land registration fee at the same time.