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let's be having you

let's be having you phrase: expression to encourage someone to hurry up and move somewhere.

Phrase

let's be having you

  1. (UK, idiomatic) Expression to encourage someone to hurry up and move somewhere.
    • This went on for a while, until one morning I came in about five to eight, not quite due on the shop floor yet, and I stopped outside the tearoom, put on my best Smiler voice: 'Right, lads, come on, let's be having you, let's have you on shop floor now, lads, come on, stop messing around in there...2009, Russell Watson, Finding My Voice, →ISBN, page 68
    • You've just been volunteered, friend, so let's be having you.2011, D.G. Compton, Justice City, →ISBN

Questions about let's be having you

What does let's be having you mean?
Let's be having you means expression to encourage someone to hurry up and move somewhere.
What part of speech is let's be having you?
Let's be having you is a phrase.

Words near let's be having you in the dictionary

  1. let us go
  2. let us see
  3. let well alone
  4. let well enough alone
  5. let's
  6. let's be having you
  7. let's dance
  8. let's face it
  9. let's get the party started
  10. let's get this circus on the road
  11. let's get this party started

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