anything but vs consummate

anything but

adv
  • Not at all; quite the contrary (of). 

consummate

verb
  • To become perfected, receive the finishing touch. 

  • To make (a marriage) complete by engaging in first sexual intercourse. 

  • To bring (a task, project, goal etc.) to completion; to accomplish. 

  • To make perfect, achieve, give the finishing touch. 

adj
  • Complete in every detail, perfect, absolute. 

  • Supremely skilled and experienced; highly accomplished; fully qualified. 

How often have the words anything but and consummate occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )