have something over with
verbEtymology get + over with
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Idiomatic To experience the ending or completion of something.
- I am going to let the evidence (T-3745) stand for whatever it is worth and you may go ahead and put the other one in too and then we will have that over with, and you can go ahead and put the other one in.1949 April 22, Records and Briefs of the United States Supreme Court, published 1950, page 4847:
- Best to have it over with. Let us have done with the ghastly business by all means.1923 July 23, Hermann B. Deutsch, “The Man Who Did Not Matter”, in Hearst's International-Cosmopolitan, page 118:
3 more examples
- Rosellen wished she and Darius had this over with.1997, Ivan Doig, Bucking the Sun: A Novel, page 404:
- One part of him knew that this is what she really wanted, to get out of this world, have it over with, to end her pain.2013, J.R. Hunter, Over the Edge, page 82:
- We were anxious to have it over with.2015, Matthew J. Davenport, First Over There: The Attack on Cantigny, America's First Battle of World War I, page 163:
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