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what of it?

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  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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“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

As Swayze himself might have said, what of it?

From Salon Aug. 16, 2019

He might well be mad, but what of it?

From The New Yorker Oct. 8, 2018

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

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

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