What about you?
What about you?
1. What are you going to do or decide? A: "I think I'll go on a hike today. What about you, Tom?" B: "I was going to bring the kids fishing, actually."
2. What is your opinion? A: "I vote for an immediate closure of the East Coast branch. What about you?" B: "I think it would be more prudent to wait until the end of the fiscal year."
See also: what
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
What about you?
1. Fig. What is your choice? (Compare this with How about you?) Tom: I'm having the pot roast and a cup of coffee. What about you? Mary: I want something fattening and unhealthy. Sally: I prefer green and purple for this room. What about you? Mary: Well, purple's okay, but green is not right for this room.
2. What will happen to you? Mary: My parents are taking my brothers to the circus. Sue: What about you? Mary: I have a piano lesson. Mary: All my friends have been accepted to colleges. Sue: What about you? Mary: Oh, I'm accepted too.
See also: what
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
- get going
- get someone going
- got
- be going begging
- go in and out
- go well with
- go well with (someone or something)
- go for (something)
- go for it
- go with bells on