have it

Definitions

1. 1

   To state or hold as true

   To state or hold as true; to insist.

   • 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.
2. 2

   To buy

   To buy: to purchase.

   • 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?)
3. 3

   To accept (an excuse, a behavior, etc)

   To accept (an excuse, a behavior, etc); to believe.

   • He tried to make excuses but she wouldn't have it / was not having it / was having none of it.
   • Sullivan wasn’t having it.
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   1. 4

      To be the object of ridicule, rebuke, critique, etc.

      • Near-synonym: get it
   2. 5

      To possess some desirable quality or ability

      To possess some desirable quality or ability; to be all that.

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

The neighborhood

• neighboras fate would have it
• neighboras luck would have it
• neighborhave had it
• neighborlet's have it