Definitions
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- noun idiomatic A
troublesome state of affairs .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an awkward situation
Etymologies
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Examples
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The new management had put more ads in the statcounter dashboard itself, which would have been just fine; but coding pop-up ads into other people's websites without so much as a how-d'ye-do is a bit uncouth.
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The new management had put more ads in the statcounter dashboard itself, which would have been just fine; but coding pop-up ads into other people's websites without so much as a how-d'ye-do is a bit uncouth.
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Fanny made no professions at all, only coldly nodding a "how-d'ye-do," without appearing to notice that Emma wished to shake hands.
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"Then I guess we'll go in an 'say how-d'ye-do," continued Cap'n Bill, attempting to enter the doorway.
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Amazing as this story is, both with regard to the strange things it asks us to believe of the man and the woman and the husband, it is certain that there was a pretty how-d'ye-do in Zurich.
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"Here's some one who would like to say how-d'ye-do to father," said
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"Here's some one who would like to say how-d'ye-do to father," said
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Just say how-d'ye-do to her, and then go out -- to the Deanery if you like.
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"Never mind, Dick," said the doctor laughing, as I did; "we'll beg a skirt for you the first time we say how-d'ye-do to a passenger vessel ----"
The Iron Pirate A Plain Tale of Strange Happenings on the Sea
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Amazing as this story is, both with regard to the strange things it asks us to believe of the man and the woman and the husband, it is certain that there was a pretty how-d'ye-do in Zurich.
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