have itとは

意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

have it (三人称単数 現在形 has it, 現在分詞 having it, 過去形および過去分詞形 had it)

1. To state or hold as true.

   Conventional wisdom has it that heat rises, but in fact heat diffuses: hot air rises.

   • 1936, The Elevator Constructor (volume 33, page 38)

     Yet he was kidnapped and "taken for a ride" in the fashion which Al Capone did so much to popularize in Chicago; and one story has it that he was shot only because the rope with which he was to have been hanged did not arrive in time.

3. (often in the negative) To accept (an excuse, a behavior, etc).
   • 2010, Nduka Onwuegbute, Masters of the Confluence, page 19:

     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 having it.

   He tried to make excuses but she wouldn't have it / was not having it / was having none of it.

4. To be the object of ridicule, rebuke, critique, etc.
   • 1926, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Land of Mist‎^[1]:

     "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."