have to do with

Idioms  

1. Be concerned or associated with; deal with. For example, This book has to do with the divisions within the church. [1100s] For the antonym, see have nothing to do with.

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Example Sentences

“It’s immoral. It’s wrong. He shouldn’t have done it. If he did, so what does that have to do with his presidency?”

From New York Times

What does that have to do with me?’”

From Los Angeles Times

Could it have to do with his violent sexual proclivities, which it seems left Noreen Lawson — the sister of the city councilman in charge of the ward where Brooks’s stadium was to be erected — in her mentally diminished state?

From New York Times

That's also misleading, he contends: "So many things that have to do with whether you have democracy or not, or more democracy or less democracy, are not seen in those measures."

From Salon

But the more powerful parts of this picture have to do with their realization that people may be too eager to hear tidy stories with clear villains and conclusions — even if they’re not entirely true.

From Los Angeles Times

Related Words

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