let's be having youとは 意味・読み方・使い方

成句

let's be having you

1. (Britain, idiomatic) Expression to encourage someone to hurry up and move somewhere.
   • 2009, Russell Watson, Finding My Voice, ISBN 1407026003, page 68:

     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 with tea, come on, let's be having you.'

   • 2011, D.G. Compton, Justice City, ISBN 0575118083:

     You've just been volunteered, friend, so let's be having you.

   • 2012, Josephine Cox, Don't Cry Alone, ISBN 0755384415:

     Draping a cloak round his crooked figure, he leaned on his cane and shuffled awkwardly to the door. 'Let's be having you!' he grumbled, impatiently donning his top hat. 'Or have you forgot we've a sale to attend?'