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How-d'ye-do   Listen
How-d'ye-do

noun
1.
An awkward situation.  Synonym: how-do-you-do.






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"How-d'ye-do" Quotes from Famous Books



... some refreshment in the shade of three or four trees, on which several storks were conjugally building their nests. While resting there, I became interested in their work, and observed, that when any of their acquaintances happened to fly past with a stick, they chattered a sort of How-d'ye-do to one another. This civility was so uniformly and reciprocally performed, that the politeness of the stork may be regarded as even less disputable than ...
— The Life of Lord Byron • John Galt



Words linked to "How-d'ye-do" :   situation



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