what have you
What remains and need not be mentioned; and the like. For example, The display room is full of stereos, TV's, and what have you. Although first recorded in 1920, this expression uses an archaic form of putting a question (using have you instead of do you have) as a noun clause, and what in the sense of “anything that.” The synonym who knows what is much older, dating from about 1700; for example, When we cleaned out the tool shed we found old grass seed, fertilizer, and who knows what other junk. Also see or whatever.
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How to use what have you in a sentence
Other times, depending on the turns in the road, and what-have-you, you would get a view of him.
Warren Commission (7 of 26): Hearings Vol. VII (of 15) | The President's Commission on the Assassination of President KennedyJust as a grocery store uses for their produce and what-have-you.
Warren Commission (3 of 26): Hearings Vol. III (of 15) | The President's Commission on the Assassination of President KennedySo that's the source of life, strength, what-have-you, of the aliens!
The Buttoned Sky | Geoff St. ReynardKilling these fumapties and lemarts and sencors and what-have-you.
The Galaxy Primes | Edward Elmer Smith
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