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单词 what say you
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what say you (if)
(b) what do you say (if) (occasionally what say you (if)): ‘how about?’. Typically with a first-person pronoun as the grammatical subject of the if-clause; now usually with ellipsis of if.
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1844 Magnet 22 Apr. 6/2 What do you say if you meet us there by eight o'clock, and we'll decide the bet.
1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Squatter's Dream xix. 238 What do you say if I go run-hunting with you?
1917 Internat. Stereotypers & Electrotypers Union Jrnl. July 15/1 What say you if we drop into the Call and talk it over with Fitzsimmons?
1920 S. Lewis Main St. 195 What do you say we go down to Jack Elder's and have a game of five hundred?
1936 A. Rand We the Living ii. xiv. 494 Well, then, what do you say if we make a bargain?
1952 J. Clagett Cradle of Sun vii. 74 Valera, what say you we go to Cadiz?
a1961 D. Hammett First Thin Man in K. McCauley et al. Nightmare Town (1999) 362 What do you say you do some detective-story reviews for my page?
1980 M. Gilbert Death of Favourite Girl ii. 23 What do you say we go outside and get a breath of fresh air?
2000 S. M. Warsh To die in Spring vii. 57 What do you say we go for some Chinese.
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how (also what) say you
P9. Law. how (also what) say you: (used to address a jury or foreman) ‘what is the verdict?’ ‘how do you find?’; (also used to address a defendant) ‘how do you plead?’Compare earlierwhat say you to, how say you to in non-legal contexts: see Phrases 8a.
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1660 Exact Accompt Trial Regicides 181 How say you, is the prisoner at the Bar guilty of the Treason whereof he stands indicted?
1742 Select Trials Old-Bailey (new ed.) IV. 33 You of the Jury, look upon the Prisoner; how say you?
1760 A. Murphy Way to keep Him i. 14 How say ye?—Gentlemen of the jury?
1810 Belfast Monthly Mag. Aug. 125/1 Clerk. What say you?.. Foreman. William Penn is guilty.
1893 Atlanta Constit. 27 Aug. 9/3 The officer of the court put the usual question, ‘How say you?’
1968 C. E. Rosenberg Trial of Assassin Guiteau viii. 223 What say you? Is the defendant guilty or not guilty?
1991 M. Wilcox Green Fingers i. ii. 5 How say you Antony Pringle, are you guilty or not guilty?
2009 K. Flynn Wicked Intentions (2010) 332 On the case of..the first-degree murder of Michael Deloge, how say you?
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