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how do you do
1interjection
- (used as a conventional greeting.)
how-do-you-do
2[ hou-duh-yuh-doo ]
noun
- a greeting; salutation:
She smiled and gave him a how-do-you-do fit for a king.
- an awkward or unpleasant event or situation:
It's a fine how-do-you-do that they've refused to help us out.
how do you do
sentence substitute
- Alsohow do?how d'ye do? a formal greeting said by people who are being introduced to each other or are meeting for the first time
noun
- informal.a difficult situation
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of how do you do1
Idioms and Phrases
A conventional greeting used mostly after being introduced to someone, as in And this is our youngest鈥攕ay 鈥淗ow do you do鈥 to Mr. Smith . Although it is a question, it requires no reply. Originally, in the 1600s, this expression was an inquiry after a person's health or standing, how do you do meaning 鈥渉ow do you fare?鈥 Today we usually express this as How are you ? or How are you doing ? or How goes it ? or How's it going ? Even more general are the slangy locutions How are things ? or How's tricks ? All of these greetings date from the first half of the 1900s.Example Sentences
Like with 鈥淢obLand,鈥 it had all of the ingredients and then how do you do it?
He added: 鈥淗ow do you do that with this president?鈥
"That's how sick these people are, because how do you do that to a mom?"
Dodgers co-owner Todd Boehly said last month of Ohtani: 鈥淗e wants to be the most amazing baseball player in the history of the world. How do you do that? You win World Series. And how do you win World Series? You help figure out how to make the club that much better. He made the club that much better when he came to that decision.鈥
I go, 鈥淲ow! She just doesn鈥檛 question herself at all. How do you do that?鈥
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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