have it in one

Idioms  

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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Example Sentences

"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

"And I'll have it in one note, if you please!"

From Australia Felix by Richardson, Henry Handel

You can get permission to have it in one of the rooms, and you can invite a lot of the fellows.

From Dick Hamilton's Cadet Days The Handicap of a Millionaire's Son by Garis, Howard R.

"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 Grayson, David

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 Barclay, Florence L. (Florence Louisa)