Have it

"Have it" in a Sentence (11 examples)

Conventional wisdom has it that heat rises, but in fact heat diffuses: hot air rises.

He'll have it that I am maliciously misleading him.

Yet he was kidnapped and "taken for a ride" in the fashion which Al Capone did so much to popularize in Chicago; and one story has it that he was shot only because the rope with which he was to have been hanged did not arrive in time.

Twenty quid, you say? Yes, we'll have it, thank you.

(Well, for only twenty quid, we're having it all day long, aren't we?)

He tried to make excuses but she wouldn't have it / was not having it / was having none of it.

Like her growing mid section, the stone was bulging in the middle. She had seen it as she walked out of Ngozi's palace. Ngozi had grilled her about who the father of her baby was, since she was known to be unmarried. Uzo'ma had insisted on keeping the identity of the father secret and Ngozi was not having it.

Near-synonym: get it

"Well, I expect you are going to let us have it," he laughed. "We are used to it Mr. Malone. We don't mind. But you will see the turn some day. These articles may rise up in judgement." "I will treat it fairly, I assure you." "Well, we ask no more."

I was nervous about her performing on stage, but after all these years, she still has it.

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I was nervous about her performing on stage, but after all these years, she’s still got it. [alloform]

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