have done


Stop or cease, as in Have done—enough of this nonsense. This idiom is also put as have done with, as in This arrangement won't work; let's find a new one and have done with it. The past participle done has been used in the sense of “finished” since about 1300. Also see have to do with.

Words Nearby have done

The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

How to use have done in a sentence

  • The small lady gave the blunderer a grave, brief, now-you-have-done-it glance and looked down.

    Kincaid's Battery | George W. Cable
  • Ripton is a dead shot in what Cousin Austin calls the Kingdom of 'would-have-done' and 'might-have-been.'

  • We-just-won't-acknowledge-a-man-is- great-until-the-whites-have done-so.

    Overshadowed | Sutton E. Griggs