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have it in one

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  1. Have the ability to accomplish something. As Sir Arthur Conan Doyle put it in A Study in Scarlet (1887), “I know well that I have it in me to make my name famous.”


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"How can they have it in one game and not other others? The inconsistency is ridiculous. It is not acceptable to take that long either as the fans have no idea what is going on."

From BBC ● Jan. 10, 2022

I knew what a worshipper of beauty you were; how you must have it, in one form or another, always around you.

From The Rosary by Florence L. (Florence Louisa) Barclay

"I'd have it in one sentence," I said, "and something like this: We believe in the passage of legislation which shall prevent any man taking from the common store any more than he actually earns."

From Adventures in Friendship by David Grayson

I have it in one of my most precious portfolios!

From Hildegarde's Harvest by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

I said, stiffly, "Brevity is best; I will have it in one word."

From Little Novels by Wilkie Collins

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