do with

British  

verb

1. to find useful; benefit from

   she could do with a night's sleep

2. to be involved in or connected with

   his illness has a lot to do with his failing the exam

3. concerning; related to

4. 1. to put or place

      what did you do with my coat?

   2. to handle or treat

      what are we going to do with these hooligans?

   3. to fill one's time usefully

      she didn't know what to do with herself when term ended

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do with Idioms  

1. Put up or manage with, as in I can do with very little sleep. [Early 1800s] Also see can do with; have to do with.

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Example Sentences

“It just has to do with the growing realization that here we are on Thursday and there’s just a lot of uncertainty about what is happening in the Gulf,” said Thomas Martin, senior portfolio manager at Globalt Investments.

From The Wall Street Journal

I’m thinking of all this because when we remember duck-and-cover drills we think “Cold War” and “Russia,” but it had a lot to do with Cuba.

From The Wall Street Journal

Tellingly, though, the moment has very little to do with her characters, which are yet again overwhelmed by her grandiose ideas.

From Los Angeles Times

Highflying memory stocks like Micron and SanDisk have been dented this week and it might have something to do with TurboQuant, a compression algorithm detailed by Google in a research paper this week.

From Barron's

Vonn and other skiing experts have said that the ruptured ACL likely had nothing to do with her crash at the Olympics.

From Los Angeles Times