have it in one
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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Nearby words
- have in one's hands,
- have it,
- have it both ways,
- have it coming,
- have it in for,
- have it made,
- have it out,
- have kittens,
- have no business,
- have no heart for
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