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Tkacka15 Posted 8 years ago
Vocabulary

What have you

“We welcome them in Gibraltar, but if transition and withdrawal is not going to apply to us – and it includes chapters specifically on citizens’ rights and workers’ rights and frontier workers and what have you – then we would be free to do whatever we like on those elements as well.”

(The Guardian.)

What does the clause "what have you" exactly mean in the context above? Does it mean "something unspecified"?

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Is "you" a direct object in "what have you"?

  

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tkacka15 Does it mean "something unspecified"? Yes. "...

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  • tkacka15 Does it mean "something unspecified"?
  • Yes.
  • "...
  • and what have you" is a fixed expression meaning "...
  • and other things left unspecified".
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tkacka15Does it mean "something unspecified"?

Yes. "... and what have you" is a fixed expression meaning "... and other things left unspecified".

tkacka15Is "you" a direct object in "what have you"?

I don't think so. It is an idiomatic expression, and the literal meaning or grammatical explanation is not tremendous

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