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have it in one

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  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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"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

"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 David Grayson

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

From Australia Felix by Henry Handel Richardson

I have it in one of my most precious portfolios!

From Hildegarde's Harvest by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

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 William James

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