yesterday but one

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English

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Etymology

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From yesterday +‎ but (“except for”) +‎ one [1]

Adverb

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yesterday but one (not comparable)

  1. (dialectal) Day before yesterday.
    • 1917, William Hope Hodgson, The Mystery of Captain Chappel‎[2]:
      "Yesterday but one I located a number of them twisted matches in the floor sweepings of the Slade Arms; an' all that evenin' I sat there, watchin' the different men that came in an' had a drink an' a smoke; but I couldn't get onto no one. …"
    • 2020 April 21, “How Uganda’s history of epidemics has prepared it for COVID-19” (4:49 from the start), in PBS NewsHour‎[3], Michael Baleke (actor), WETA-TV, via Public Broadcasting Service:
      "Yesterday but one [the day before yesterday], I bought a kilo of beans at 4,000 [shillings]. Yesterday, I came back and it was 5,000."
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