have it

Verb

have it (third-person singular simple present has it, present participle having it, simple past and past participle had it)

1. To state or hold as true; to insist.
   • Conventional wisdom has it that heat rises, but in fact heat diffuses: hot air rises.
   • He'll have it that I am maliciously misleading him.

   Synonyms:

   hold

2. To buy: to purchase.
   • Twenty quid, you say? Yes, we'll have it, thank you.
   • (Well, for only twenty quid, we're having it all day long, aren't we?)
3. To accept (an excuse, a behavior, etc); to believe.
   • He tried to make excuses but she wouldn't have it / was not having it / was having none of it.
   • Like her growing mid section, the stone was bulging in the middle. She had seen it as she walked out of Ngozi's palace. Ngozi had grilled her about who the father of her baby was, since she was known to be unmarried. Uzo'ma had insisted on keeping the identity of the father secret and Ngozi was not...2010, Nduka Onwuegbute, Masters of the Confluence, page 19

   Synonyms:

   buy it

4. To be the object of ridicule, rebuke, critique, etc.
   • Near-synonym: get it
   • "Well, I expect you are going to let us have it," he laughed. "We are used to it Mr. Malone. We don't mind. But you will see the turn some day. These articles may rise up in judgement." "I will treat it fairly, I assure you." "Well, we ask no more."1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019

   Synonyms:

   get it

5. To possess some desirable quality or ability; to be all that.
   • I was nervous about her performing on stage, but after all these years, she still has it.
   • I was nervous about her performing on stage, but after all these years, she’s still got it. [alloform]