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have
verb- to have sex with someone UK, 1594
- Don’t you know that he’s married, and that he’s had more women than you can count? — Juan Rulfo (translated by Josephine Sacabo), Pedro Paramo, 1994
- to believe something, to accept UK
- I’ll tell him I’ve got the number off’ve Misty the other night when she was trying to get through to him. He’ll have that. And I’ll tell him I thought I was being followed. He’ll have that and all, too. — Kevin Sampson, Outlaws, p. 255, 2001
- to outwit, to cheat, to deceive UK, 1805
▶ have a no
I don’t have US
Korean war usage from Japanese pidgin; a supply officer’s perfect answer to a requisition for supplies not in stock.- — The Baltimore Sun, 24 June 1951
▶ have a pop at
to attack, especially verbally UK
A variation of “have a pop at” (to try) adopting a different sense of “pop” (to hit).- [Y]ou’re in no position to have a pop at us. — Kerrang!, p. 8, 3 November 2001
▶ have got ’em; have got ’em bad
to have the delirium tremens, to have a fit of nerves or depression or “the blues” UK, 1893- Yes that’s what makes me feel so sad people / Oh, and today I got ’em bad. — B.B King, Got ’em Bad, 1956
▶ have got it bad; have got it badly
to have fallen in love or to be infatuated UK, 1911- She wants me / Like poison ivy / Needs me / Like a hole in the head / Everyone can see she’s got it bad. — Elvis Presley, The Lady Loves Me, 1983
▶ have had it- to be faced with an unavoidable prospect of defeat or ruin; to be defeated, to be ruined; to be dead or to have been killed UK, 1941
- Jimmy Green spotted some “nasty looking pillboxes along the coast.” One looked particularly lethal. “If there’s anybody in there,” Green thought, “We’ve had it.” — The Observer, 1 June 2003
- to have had more than enough of something; to be sick and tired of something UK, 1984
- Waiting for him to give us the word. Waiting to start off. I’ve had waiting. — Derek Bickerton, Payroll, p. 42, 1959
- I’ve had it with going here, there and everywhere and walking miles for fuck all. — Martin King and Martin Knight, The Naughty Nineties, p. 123, 1999
▶ have had it up to here
to have had more than enough of; to be sick and tired of UK, 1984
An elaboration of HAVE HAD IT▶ have it
to fight UK- [N]ewspaper pundits who get all stiff and moist over biographies of bare-knuckle fighters often turn a bit squeamish at the thought of two mobs having it in public streets with not a purse in sight for the victor. — Irvine Welsh, The Naughty Nineties, p. 9, 1999
▶ have it away- to escape from imprisonment or arrest; to get away UK
- The PO [Prison Officer] who was in charge of the escort that was going to take us and look after us and make sure no one had it away. — Frank Norman, Bang To Rights, p. 39, 1958
- [T]he infantry went home with drums beating six months ago, the sappers have packed up, even the chinkies [Chinese] have had it away[.] — Graeme Kent, The Queen’s Corporal [Six Granada Plays], p. 82, 1959
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 61, 1996
- to steal UK
- They thought they’d had it away with a Belgian juggernaut and there were six Old Bill sitting in the back. — Anthony Masters, Minder, p. 59, 1984
▶ have it in for
to bear a grudge against; to wish to harm UK, 1849- [W]ith things as they are now Bell and O’Mally have got it in for you and I don’t blame them either. Coming in here you’re just asking for trouble. — Graeme Kent, The Queen’s Corporal [Six Granada Plays], p. 86, 1959
▶ have it made; have got it made
to be on the point of succeeding; to be faced with no (more) obstacles; to have it easy US, 1955- Bartenders got it made. Drugs, sex, money, connections–an endless supply coming across the bar. — The Guardian, 23 January 1999
▶ have it off- to have sex UK, 1937
- They walk in, have it off with me, say “Ta” and then stroll out again, nice and simple with no complications. Like buying a packet of fags. — Flame, p. 11, 1972
- Let me put it another way–were you and Billy having it off on the side. — Anthony Masters, Minder, p. 74, 1984
- [P]ictures of the Spice Girls having it off with each other[.] — Danny King, The Burglar Diaries, p. 58, 2001
- to succeed in a criminal enterprise UK, 1936
- [T]hey pulled off some lovely jobs. They had been having it off very nicely for some months[.] — Charles Raven, Underworld Nights, p. 46, 1956
▶ have it on your dancers
to escape; to run away UK, 1984
An elaboration of HAVE IT ON YOUR TOES.▶ have it on your toes; have it away on your toes
to escape; to run away UK- [H]e had been transfer[e]d because he had had it on his toes, and was out for about three months before he had got captured. — Frank Norman, Bang To Rights, p. 102, 1958
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 61, 1996
- Everyone else had it away on their toes when Maltese Mickey died. — John Milne, Alive and Kicking, p. 52, 1998
▶ have it with
to be in the company of UK- The people I was having it with in Whitemoor were some of the most infamous prisoners in the system. — Noel “Razor” Smith, A Rusty Gun, p. 3, 2010
▶ have legs
of an idea, to have the ability to progress UK
Media jargon that has seeped into wider usage.- Are you sure this idea has legs? — Stewart Home, Sex Kick [britpulp], p. 202, 1999
▶ have one in the departure lounge
to feel the urgent need to defecate UK- — www.LondonSlang.com, June 2002
▶ have yourself
to indulge yourself or provide yourself with something US, 1929- [“T]hirty minutes?” “Make it an hour and you have yourself a deal.” “An hour, then.” Dora retreated to her room[.] — Maureen Tan, A.K.A. Jane, p. 80, 1999
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