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.

Yet that sensation would seem probably to be there, for in an instant, by a change of attention, you can have it in one field of consciousness with the voice.

From A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy by James, William

"Tell him he shall have it in one moment," replied I. "And now bring me a light."

From Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 2 by Lever, Charles James