have : Idioms & Phrases

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as luck would have it

  • adverb by good fortune
    fortunately; luckily; fortuitously.
    • fortunately the weather was good
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Fillister screw had

  • a short cylindrical screw head, having a convex top.
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had best

  • verb act in one's own or everybody's best interest
    do well.
    • You will do well to arrive on time tomorrow!
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had crime

  • noun (Islam) serious crimes committed by Muslims and punishable by punishments established in the Koran
    • Had crimes include apostasy from Islam and murder and theft and adultery
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has-been

  • noun someone who is no longer popular
    back-number.
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have a ball

  • verb enjoy oneself greatly
    have a ball.
    • We had a ball at the party and didn't come home until 2 AM
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have a bun in the oven

  • verb be pregnant with
    carry; gestate; bear; expect.
    • She is bearing his child
    • The are expecting another child in January
    • I am carrying his child
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have a fit

  • verb get very angry and fly into a rage
    hit the roof; flip one's lid; fly off the handle; go ballistic; flip one's wig; hit the ceiling; throw a fit; blow one's stack; lose one's temper; combust; blow up; blow a fuse; have a fit.
    • The professor combusted when the student didn't know the answer to a very elementary question
    • Spam makes me go ballistic
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have a go

  • verb make an attempt at something
    give it a try.
    • I never sat on a horse before but I'll give it a go
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have a go at it

  • verb have sexual intercourse with
    love; fuck; sleep with; have it away; screw; have intercourse; get it on; lie with; hump; make love; make out; get laid; have a go at it; bonk; eff; jazz; be intimate; know; have it off; bang; bed; do it; roll in the hay; sleep together.
    • This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm
    • Adam knew Eve
    • Were you ever intimate with this man?
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have a good time

  • verb enjoy oneself greatly
    have a ball.
    • We had a ball at the party and didn't come home until 2 AM
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have a look

  • verb look at with attention
    get a load; take a look.
    • Have a look at this!
    • Get a load of this pretty woman!
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have down

  • verb have (something) mastered
    • She has the names of the fifty states down pat
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have got

  • verb have or possess, either in a concrete or an abstract sense
    hold; have.
    • She has $1,000 in the bank
    • He has got two beautiful daughters
    • She holds a Master's degree from Harvard
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have in mind

  • verb intend to refer to
    think of; mean.
    • I'm thinking of good food when I talk about France
    • Yes, I meant you when I complained about people who gossip!
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have intercourse

  • verb have sexual intercourse with
    love; fuck; sleep with; have it away; screw; have intercourse; get it on; lie with; hump; make love; make out; get laid; have a go at it; bonk; eff; jazz; be intimate; know; have it off; bang; bed; do it; roll in the hay; sleep together.
    • This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm
    • Adam knew Eve
    • Were you ever intimate with this man?
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have it away

  • verb have sexual intercourse with
    love; fuck; sleep with; have it away; screw; have intercourse; get it on; lie with; hump; make love; make out; get laid; have a go at it; bonk; eff; jazz; be intimate; know; have it off; bang; bed; do it; roll in the hay; sleep together.
    • This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm
    • Adam knew Eve
    • Were you ever intimate with this man?
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have it coming

  • verb deserve (either good or bad)
    • It's too bad he got fired, but he sure had it coming
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have it off

  • verb have sexual intercourse with
    love; fuck; sleep with; have it away; screw; have intercourse; get it on; lie with; hump; make love; make out; get laid; have a go at it; bonk; eff; jazz; be intimate; know; have it off; bang; bed; do it; roll in the hay; sleep together.
    • This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm
    • Adam knew Eve
    • Were you ever intimate with this man?
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have kittens

  • verb get very angry and fly into a rage
    hit the roof; flip one's lid; fly off the handle; go ballistic; flip one's wig; hit the ceiling; throw a fit; blow one's stack; lose one's temper; combust; blow up; blow a fuse; have a fit.
    • The professor combusted when the student didn't know the answer to a very elementary question
    • Spam makes me go ballistic
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have on

  • verb be dressed in
    wear.
    • She was wearing yellow that day
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have sex

  • verb have sexual intercourse with
    love; fuck; sleep with; have it away; screw; have intercourse; get it on; lie with; hump; make love; make out; get laid; have a go at it; bonk; eff; jazz; be intimate; know; have it off; bang; bed; do it; roll in the hay; sleep together.
    • This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm
    • Adam knew Eve
    • Were you ever intimate with this man?
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have the best

  • verb overcome, usually through no fault or weakness of the person that is overcome
    get the best; overcome.
    • Heart disease can get the best of us
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have words

  • verb censure severely or angrily
    call on the carpet; rag; dress down; remonstrate; chew out; take to task; call down; jaw; lambast; trounce; scold; chide; berate; chew up; rebuke; reprimand; reproof; lecture; bawl out; lambaste.
    • The mother scolded the child for entering a stranger's car
    • The deputy ragged the Prime Minister
    • The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup
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have young

  • verb birth
    calve.
    • the whales calve at this time of year
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have-not

  • noun a person with few or no possessions
    poor person.
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have-to doe with

  • verb be relevant to
    touch on; relate; pertain; bear on; touch; come to; refer; concern.
    • There were lots of questions referring to her talk
    • My remark pertained to your earlier comments
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might-have-been

  • noun an event that could have occurred but never did
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To be under way, ∨ To have way

  • (Naut.), to be in motion, as when a ship begins to move.
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To catch upon the hip, ∨ To have on the hip

  • to have or get the advantage of; a figure probably derived from wresting. Shak.
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To get, ∨ have, the start

  • to before another; to gain or have the advantage in a similar undertaking; usually with of. "Get the start of the majestic world." Shak. "She might have forsaken him if he had not got the start of her." Dryden.
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To have (a man) out

  • to engage (one) in a duel.
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To have a bee in the bonnet

  • . See under Bee.
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To have a bee in the head ∨ in the bonnet

  • . (a) To be choleric. Obs. (b) To be restless or uneasy. B. Jonson. (c) To be full of fancies; to be a little crazy. "She's whiles crack-brained, and has a bee in her head." Sir W. Scott.
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To have a brick in one's hat

  • to be drunk. Slang
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To have a care

  • to take care; to be on one's guard.
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To have a colt's tooth

  • to be wanton. Chaucer.
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To have a finger in

  • to be concerned in. Colloq.
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To have a hand in

  • to be concerned in; to have a part or concern in doing; to have an agency or be employed in.
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To have a long head

  • to have a farseeing or sagacious mind.
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To have a mind ∨ great mind

  • to be inclined or strongly inclined in purpose; used with an infinitive. "Sir Roger de Coverly... told me that he had a great mind to see the new tragedy with me." Addison.
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To have an eye to

  • to pay particular attention to; to watch. "Have an eye to Cinna." Shak.
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To have at heart

  • to desire (anything) earnestly.
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To have at one's fingers' ends

  • to be thoroughly familiar with. Colloq.
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To have at one's retinue

  • to keep or employ as a retainer; to retain. Obs.
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To have at vantage

  • to have the advantage of; to be in a more favorable condition than. "He had them at vantage, being tired and harassed with a long march." Bacon.
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To have cut one's eyeteeth

  • to be sharp and knowing. Colloq.
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To have done

  • to have made an end or conclusion; to have finished; to be quit; to desist.
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To have done with

  • to have completed; to be through with; to have no further concern with.
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To have drunk wine of ape ∨ wine ape

  • to be so drunk as to be foolish. Obs. Chaucer.
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To have hard measure

  • to have harsh treatment meted out to one; to be harshly or oppressively dealt with.
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To have in contemplation

  • to inted or purpose, or to have under consideration.
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To have in hand

  • . (a) To have in one's power or control. Chaucer. (b) To be engaged upon or occupied with.
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To have in the heart

  • to purpose; to design or intend to do.
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To have in view

  • to have in mind as an incident, object, or aim; as, to have one's resignation in view.
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To have it out

  • to speak freely; to bring an affair to a conclusion.
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To have legs

  • (Naut.), to have speed. also, to have endurance, to continue longer than usual,
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To have on

  • to wear.
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To have on the brain

  • to have constantly in one's thoughts, as a sort of monomania. Low
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To have one's cake dough

  • to fail or be disappointed in what one has undertaken or expected.
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To have one's ear

  • to be listened to with favor.
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To have one's fling

  • to enjoy one's self to the full; to have a season of dissipation. J. H. Newman. "When I was as young as you, I had my fling. I led a life of pleasure." D. Jerrold.
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To have one's handful

  • to have one's hands full; to have all one can do. Obs.
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To have one's hands full

  • to have in hand al that one can do, or more than can be done conveniently; to be pressed with labor or engagements; to be surrounded with difficulties.
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To have one's will

  • to obtain what is desired; to do what one pleases.
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To have place

  • to have a station, room, or seat; as, such desires can have no place in a good heart.
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To have respect of persons

  • to regard persons with partiality or undue bias, especially on account of friendship, power, wealth, etc. "It is not good to have respect of persons in judgment." Prov. xxiv. 23.
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To have something on the stock

  • to be at work at something.
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To have the advantage of

  • (any one), to have a personal knowledge of one who does not have a reciprocal knowledge. "You have the advantage of me; I don't remember ever to have had the honor." Sheridan.
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To have the black ox tread on one's foot

  • to be unfortunate; to know what sorrow is (because black oxen were sacrificed to Pluto). Leigh Hunt.
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To have the cards in one's own hands

  • to have the winning cards; to have the means of success in an undertaking.
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To have the heart in the mouth

  • to be much frightened.
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To have the heels of

  • to outrun.
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To have the honor

  • to have the privilege or distinction.
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To have the words for

  • to speak for; to act as spokesman. Obs. "Our host hadde the wordes for us all." Chaucer.
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To have to do with

  • to have concern, business or intercourse with; to deal with. When preceded by what, the notion is usually implied that the affair does not concern the person denoted by the subject of have. "Philology has to do with language in its fullest sense." Earle. "What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah? 2 Sam. xvi. 10.
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To have two strings to one's bow

  • to have a means or expedient in reserve in case the one employed fails.
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To have under the girdle

  • to have bound to one, that is, in subjection.
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To take, ∨ have, the law of

  • to bring the law to bear upon; as, to take the law of one's neighbor. Addison.
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To take, ∨ have, the wind

  • to gain or have the advantage. Bacon.
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