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Bookmark or Share- meaning - What's the origin of the phrase "what have you"? - English ...I've never really understood the meaning and origin of the phrase "what have you". Examples: You can use a pencil, a sharpie, a ballpoint, what have you. The display room is full of ster...
- american english - Pronunciation of What do you want to do? - English ...Perfectly good pronunciation, and, yes, typical stress. Particularly if there is no prior context. (You walk up to your friend and start out with "Whaddya wanna do?) But if you were responding to someone who had just said "I don't want to do THAT", you might sound out almost all the words, and stress especially the first "do":
- expressions - “What say we [suggestion (verb phrase)]” - English ...There is the slightly longer “whaddya say we [suggestion (verb phrase)]” which is an informal version of “what do you say we”. This is still not, strictly speaking, grammatical. But it seems akin to “what say you to [suggestion (noun phrase)]”, such as the Shakespeare quotation offered in comment by AndrewLeach
- What is the origin of the phrase "egg in your beer"?what do you (or, illiterately yet frequently, whaddya) want? eggs (or an egg) in your beer? 'Usually said to be someone who is bitching or griping without justifiable cause. I have heard this used only by Marines, but I strongly suspect that it was borrowed from civilian use' (Col. Moe 1975).
- Where does the phrase "No ifs, no buts, no coconuts" come from?UPDATE (June 3, 2017): I should mention two other confirmed early occurrences of related phrases. One is an instance of "no ifs, no buts, no cuts" from 1999 (probably) in Legal Action: The Bulletin of the Legal Action Group, where the meaning might be read as "no arguing or equivocating—cutting is not allowed"; the other is a much later instance, from Acid (2008), which gives the expression ...
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