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Also, what's it to you ? What does it matter? Also, how does it concern or interest you? For example, I know I don't need another coat but what of it?—I like this one , or What's it to you how many hours I sleep at night? The first term, a synonym of so what, dates from the late 1500s; the second, another way of saying “mind your own business,” dates from the early 1900s.Discover More
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“If he robs a bank, what of it,” Mrs. W.B.
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“I sold some food. What of it?”
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“I visited a friend after class. What of it?”
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County’s 33rd sheriff and a Chicano Spanish term of defiance that means, “And what of it?”
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As the acts rewind, he stops the action to ask questions that make Puccini’s tragedy more about the why than the what of it all.
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