what : Idioms & Phrases


know what's going on

  • verb be well-informed
    know the score; be with it; know what's going on; be on the ball.
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know what's what

  • verb be well-informed
    know the score; be with it; know what's going on; be on the ball.
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no matter what happens

  • adverb in spite of all obstacles
    whatever may come; come hell or high water.
    • we'll go to Tibet come hell or high water
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what for

  • noun a strong reprimand
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What ho!

  • an exclamation of calling.
Webster 1913

What if

  • what will it matter if; what will happen or be the result if. "What if it be a poison?" Shak.
Webster 1913

what is more

  • adverb in addition; furthermore, their quality is improving"; moreover, mice nested there"
    moreover; furthermore.
    • computer chess games are getting cheaper all the time
    • the cellar was dark
    • what is more, there's no sign of a change
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What of this? that? it? etc.

  • what follows from this, that, it, etc., often with the implication that it is of no consequence. "All this is so; but what of this, my lord?" Shak. "The night is spent, why, what of that?" Shak.
Webster 1913

What though

  • even granting that; allowing that; supposing it true that. "What though the rose have prickles, yet't is plucked." Shak.
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What time, ∨ What time as

  • when. Obs. or Archaic "What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee." Ps. lvi. 3.
    What time the morn mysterious visions brings. Pope.
Webster 1913