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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what of it?

As the acts rewind, he stops the action to ask questions that make Puccini’s tragedy more about the why than the what of it all.

From New York Times ● May 30, 2022

If Shakespeare is thought to be offensive by today’s standards, then what of it?

From Washington Post ● Feb. 16, 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

The road ahead was full of perils, he knew, but what of it?

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin