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how_do_you_do
how do you do
English
Alternative forms
- how-d'ye-do
- how-do-you-do
Phrase
- (formal) a greeting used meeting somebody. Alternatives are pleased to meet you and nice to meet you.
Related terms
- how are you doing (less formal)
- howdy (informal)
Translations
Phrase: how do you do
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Noun
how do you do (plural how do you dos)
- (Britain, euphemistic) A difficult situation
- 1993, Nick Park, Wallace and Gromit: The Wrong Trousers
- Well, this is a fine how do you do isn't it, Gromit?
- 2010, Michael Sledge, The More I Owe You: A Novel, Counterpoint Press (ISBN 9781582435763), page 78
- On the winding road to Petropolis, they did not speak, not about modernism or the construction of houses or antique bird jails or fine how-do-you-dos.
- 2013, Chris Raschka, Seriously, Norman!, Scholastic Inc. (ISBN 9780545388467), page 115
- "Vienna!" Mr. B. went on. "This is is a bit of a how-do-you-do, is it not?"
- 1993, Nick Park, Wallace and Gromit: The Wrong Trousers