what of it?

Idioms  

1. Also, what's it to you? What does it matter? Also, how does it concern or interest you? For example, I know I don't need another coat but what of it?—I like this one, or What's it to you how many hours I sleep at night? The first term, a synonym of so what, dates from the late 1500s; the second, another way of saying “mind your own business,” dates from the early 1900s.

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Example Sentences

“The entire world of ‘White on White’ is selectively outlined; what of it exists exists in crisp, clean prose,” Larissa Pham writes in her review.

From New York Times • Dec. 23, 2021

Henry Grabar: As usual, I arrived right before this plane took off, and what of it?

From Slate • Nov. 3, 2020

Or as Swayze himself says in a vintage interview clip, "I had a whole process of learning what walking around what a chip on your shoulder means. I'm a ballet dancer; what of it?"

From Salon • Aug. 16, 2019

He might well be mad, but what of it?

From The New Yorker • Oct. 8, 2018

And if a few strands of brown tobacco dropped to the rough flagstones, what of it?

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer