what : Idioms & Phrases
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know what's going on
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
Webster 1913
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.