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出典:『Wiktionary』 (2025/12/17 19:07 UTC 版)
First attested in 1940, in John O'Hara's novel Pal Joey. The term is considered by the American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms, Second Edition (2013) and several other references to be a calque of German “was gibt's?” and/or a Yiddish equivalent. Brian Joseph disputes this, and speculates that despite extremely late attestation, it and the German was gibt's may "allow[] for a reconstruction of a Proto-West-Germanic existential use of 'give', which survives marginally into present usage."
what gives?
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何ということ
何を措いても
laying aside everything―before everything―above all things
what way
どの様に
何に託して
under pretence of―on the pretence of―under pretext of―on the pretext of―under plea of―on the plea of―under colour of―under cover of―under the mask of―under the cloak of―under the veil of―something
どんなふうに
どのよう
どのもの
which
what
what
to aim at something―make anything the prime object―make anything the first consideration―put anything in the first place
about where
どうなっているの?
what gives?
what
what
どうなっているの?
何をするの?
なにそれ?
どうするの?
どうするの?
どうするの
どうするの
なぜ.
それなあに.
あれ何?
何てことだ!
What then?