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AngloScot | 00:50 Tue 26th Oct 2004 | Phrases & Sayings
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what does it mean?
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What does what mean?

 

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1. Used to refer to that one previously mentioned. Used of a nonhuman entity; an animate being whose sex is unspecified, unknown, or irrelevant; a group of objects or individuals; an action; or an abstraction: polished the table until it shone; couldn't find out who it was; opened the meeting by calling it to order.


2. Used as the subject of an impersonal verb: It is snowing.

3. Used as an anticipatory subject or object: Is it certain that they will win?


4. Used as an anticipatory subject to emphasize a term that is not itself a subject: It was on Friday that all the snow fell.

5.Used to refer to a general condition or state of affairs: She couldn't stand it.


6.Used to refer to a crucial situation or culmination:

a.This is it the rivals are finally face to face.

b.That's it! I won't tolerate any more foolishness.


7.Informal. Used to refer to something that is the best, the most desirable, or without equal: He thinks he's it. That steak was really it!

hmm the original post was edited by AB  .... so I'm guessing it was a ruuuuuuude word! Tsk Tsk :-P

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