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what have you
Idioms and Phrases
What remains and need not be mentioned; and the like. For example, The display room is full of stereos, TV's, and what have you . Although first recorded in 1920, this expression uses an archaic form of putting a question (using have you instead of do you have ) as a noun clause, and what in the sense of “anything that.” The synonym who knows what is much older, dating from about 1700; for example, When we cleaned out the tool shed we found old grass seed, fertilizer, and who knows what other junk . Also see or whatever .Example Sentences
“You know you can talk,” Washington said, “but you’ve just got to walk the walk. In the game of baseball, it’s always about: What have you done for me lately?”
He said the others had asked the male defendant, "what have you done? What have you done?"
What have you learned about getting attention over this year?
“There’s this sort of boogeyman attack on DEI and what have you, and it’s all part of the same narrative. There’s a swift backlash when there’s any progress. That’s not to say that progress won’t happen. I think it’s two steps forward, one-and-three-quarter step back. And that hasn’t changed in generations.”
JJ: Through your work, what have you learned most about L.A.?
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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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