if it wasn't / weren't for sb / sth

if it wasn't / weren't for sb / sth also if it hadn't been for sb / sth used to say who or what prevents or prevented something from happening要不是某人; 要是没有某事物:•We would have arrived much earlier if it hadn't been for the snow.要不是下雪，我们早就到了。if it wasn't / weren't for sb / sth also if it hadn't been for sb / sth used to say who or what prevents or prevented something from happening要不是某人/某物:•If it hadn't been for you, I should have drowned.要不是你的话，我就淹死了。

• insulator arrangement
• prescribers
• Lucayans
• decretory
• ticinoes
• Wigner energy
• exenterate
• Allogromiina
• St.-Lambert
• harper
• tillicum
• bode to
• ermine moth
• brachiopods
• techno
• basic oxygen process
• feel the effect of
• acquaintanced
• sampling errors
• nootropics
• going private
• pikeman
• speak/talk the same language
• as sharp as a razor
• ecliptic poles
• oches
• legalistic
• caseinogens
• memels
• drop through
• conchology
• lough
• be for
• aerographical
• right-brain
• internal storage
• seymouriamorphs
• pointednesses
• geostrophically
• boston terriers
• static recovery
• prickly ashes
• hereditable
• floatability
• ring complex
• Alcyonaria
• deicers
• patrol
• tersest
• Jensen,J. Hans
• keyings
• modifer gene
• flusion
• formulable
• discursivenesses
• hydrant
• breast wall
• stab in the back
• Camembert
• Chron.
• photosetters
• Shakti
• Indian bread
• purpuras
• pay-TV
• Free State
• put a jerk into it
• urethrorectal
• Whitsunday
• oologists
• petrotectonic
• cut it out
• church-mouse
• indispensablenesses
• acid bronze
• smokery
• homographs
• Old Crows
• take a false step
• as white as ashes
• trailing vortex
• inthrones
• photoelectric
• primatical
• moral cowardice
• complotment
• wuthering
• at the top of the tree/ladder
• wallaby
• dibbled
• scrimmage
• hypothecater
• hook sb up with sb/sth
• -odontia
• wormlings
• diddlies
• -iatric
• sym-trioxane
• puckishnesses
• digitation