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what of it?
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 school? Ah, you mean that Swanbird place; what of it?”
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“If he robs a bank, what of it,” Mrs. W.B.
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“I sold some food. What of it?”
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“I visited a friend after class. What of it?”
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County’s 33rd sheriff and a Chicano Spanish term of defiance that means, “And what of it?”
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