How are you?
Related to How are you?: How Do You Do?, How Are You Doing
How are you?
1. How are things? How's life? Used as a general friendly greeting. A: "Good to see you, John. How are you?" B: "I've been well, thanks. How are you, Paul?"
2. Used to inquire into the state of someone's mental, emotional, or physical health. How are you, Miranda? I heard you were sick recently.
See also: how
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
- How is everything?
- How's things (with you)?
- how's it going
- How's life (treating you)?
- How's by you?
- How's about...?
- How's the family?
- How's the/your family?
- How's my boy?
- How's my/the boy?