have had it

Idioms  

1. Also, have had it up to here . Have endured all one can, as in I've had it with their delays , or She has had it up to here with her hour-long commute .

2. Be in a state beyond remedy, repair, or salvage, as in That old coat has had it .

3. Be dead, as in His heart just stopped; he'd had it . All three colloquial usages, which appear to be shortenings of have had enough , date from the mid-1900s.

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Example Sentences

That said, there is one area where millennials definitively have had it harder than Boomers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026

The son of an American prince, he could have had it all.

From Salon • Jul. 17, 2025

With cancer this advanced, mustn’t he have had it while in office?

From Slate • May 23, 2025

"I'm worried now it's passed on to my children - I'm more worried about them than me, because they will have had it from birth and not from later on in life," the 52-year-old said.

From BBC • Apr. 2, 2025

But I do need to know what it could have been like to have had it.

From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison