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have to
Idioms and Phrases
Also, have got to . Be obliged to, must. For example, We have to go now , or He has got to finish the paper today . The use of have as an auxiliary verb to indicate obligation goes back to the 16th century; the variant using got dates from the mid-1800s.Example Sentences
But most analysts think the firm's prices will have to go up.
"Sometimes you have to walk through fire to get to the other side," she said.
“Giving those guys three outs on the bases,†Roberts said, “that’s something that we have to clean up.â€
“After they do their time as of now, we have to release them into the general population, and I believe that is wrong,†he said.
"The school offered choices each day, but by the time I turned up they might have to scrape a spoon around several times to get a serving and it was always colder."
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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