have it in for someone Definition

have
verb has, had, having

1. To possess or own.

Example: They have a big house
2. To possess as a characteristic or quality.

Example: He has brown eyes
Thesaurus: possess, hold, comprise, contain, include.
3. To receive, obtain or take.

Example: I'll have a drink
Example: He had a look
Thesaurus: get, procure, acquire, obtain, secure.
4. To think of or hold in the mind.

Example: I have an idea
5. To experience, enjoy or suffer.

Example: You'll have a good time
Example: I have a headache
Example: I had my car stolen
6. To be in a specified state.

Example: The book has a page missing
7. To arrange or hold.

Example: I'm having a party
8. To take part in something.

Example: We had a conversation
9. To cause, order or invite someone to do something or something to be done.

Example: You should have your hair cut
Example: They had him fired
10. To state or assert.

Example: Rumour has it that they've only just met
11. To place.

Example: I'll have the fridge in this corner
12. To eat or drink.

Example: I had beans and chips
13. To gain an advantage over or control of someone.

Example: You have me on that point
14. colloq
To cheat or deceive.
Example: You've been had
Thesaurus: deceive, cheat, dupe, fool, outwit, swindle, trick.
15. To show or feel.

Example: I have no pity for them
Example: She had the goodness to leave
16. To accept or tolerate

Example: I won't have any of that!
17. To receive as a guest.

Example: We're having people to dinner
18. To be pregnant with or give birth to (a baby, etc).

Example: She had a boy
19. coarse slang
To have sexual intercourse with someone.
20. To possess a knowledge of something.

Example: I have some French

auxiliary verb

1. Used with a past participle to show that the action or actions described have been completed, as in I have made the cake and She has been there many times.

noun

1. colloq
People who have wealth and the security it brings.
Example: the haves and the have-nots
Form: haves
2. slang
A trick or swindle.

Idiom: had better ... (had best ...)

Would do best to ....
Example: I had better be off

Idiom: had rather ... (had sooner ...)

Would consider preferable that ....
Example: I had rather you didn't bother

Idiom: have had it

To be dead, ruined or exhausted.

To have missed one's opportunity.

To become unfashionable.

Idiom: have it coming

colloq
To deserve the bad luck, punishment, etc that one will get.

Idiom: have it in for someone

colloq
To feel hostile towards them and wish to cause them unpleasantness.

Idiom: have it in one

To have the courage or ability within oneself (to do something).

Idiom: have it off with someone (have it away with someone)

(rit)
coarse slang
To have sexual intercourse with them.

Idiom: have it out

To settle a disagreement by arguing or discussing it frankly.

Idiom: have it so good

Note: usually with negatives
To have very many material benefits.

Idiom: have to be

To surely be.
Example: That has to be the reason

Idiom: have to be something (have to do something)

To be required to be or do it.
Example: He had to run fast
Example: We had to be gentle
Thesaurus: be obliged to, must, ought to, should, be compelled to, be forced to, be obliged to, be required to.

Idiom: have to do with someone

To have dealings with them.

Idiom: have to do with something

To be of relevance to it.

Idiom: have what it takes

colloq
To have the required qualities or ability.

Idiom: I have it! (I've got it!)

I have found the answer, solution, etc.

Idiom: let someone have it

colloq
To launch an attack on them, either physical or verbal.

Idiom: not be having any of that

To be unwilling to accept or tolerate the thing mentioned.

Etymology: Anglo-Saxon habban.

Phrasal Verb: have at someone

To make an opening attack on them, especially in fencing.

Phrasal Verb: have someone on

To trick or tease them.

Phrasal Verb: have something on

To be wearing it.To have an engagement or appointment.

Phrasal Verb: have something on someone

To have information about them, especially adverse or incriminating information.

Phrasal Verb: have something out

To have (a tooth, etc) extracted or removed.

Phrasal Verb: have someone up for something

To bring them to court to answer (a charge)
Example: He was had up for robbery.

Info:

A common error is the insertion of an extra have after had in sentences such as:

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in
prep

1. Used to express the position of someone or something with regard to what encloses, surrounds or includes them or it; within.

Example: Stay in bed
Example: They are in the park
Example: She's in the sixth form
2. Into.

Example: get in the car
Example: I put it in my bag
3. After (a period of time).

Example: Come back in an hour
Example: It will be ready in one minute
4. During; while.

Example: lost in transit
Example: In running for the bus, she tripped
5. Used to express arrangement or shape.

Example: in a square
Example: in alphabetical order
6. From; out of something.

Example: two in every eight
7. By the medium or means of, or using, something.

Example: sung in Italian
Example: written in code
8. Wearing something.

Example: the lady in red
Example: a man in a fur hat
9. Used to describe a state or manner.

Example: in a hurry
Example: in a daze
10. Used to state an occupation.

Example: She's in banking
Example: a job in local government
11. Used to state a purpose.

Example: a party in his honour
Example: built in memory of his wife
12. Said of some animals: pregnant with (young).

Example: in calf

adverb

1. To or towards the inside; indoors.

Example: Do come in
Thesaurus: inward, inside, toward the centre, into, within.
2. At home or work

Example: Is John in?
Thesaurus: here, at home.
3. So as to be added or included.

Example: beat in the eggs
4. So as to enclose or conceal, or be enclosed or concealed.

Example: The fireplace was bricked in
5. In or into political power or office.
6. In or into fashion.
7. In a good position; in favour.

Example: trying to keep in with the boss
8. In certain games: batting.
9. Into a proper, required or efficient state.

Example: run a new car in
10. Said of the tide: at its highest point; as close to the shore as it gets.
11. Expressing prolonged activity, especially by large numbers of people gathered in one room or building, originally as a form of organized protest.

Example: a sit-in
Example: a work-in
Example: a teach-in

adj

1. Inside; internal; inwards. See also inner, inmost.

Example: Never go out of the in door
2. Fashionable.

Example: Orange was the in colour last summer
Example: the in thing to do
Thesaurus: popular, fashionable, trendy, modish.
3. In power or office.

Example: when the Tories were in
4. Used for receiving things coming in.

Example: an in-tray
5. Shared by a group of people.

Example: an in-joke

Idiom: be in for it or something

colloq
To be likely to experience some trouble or difficulty.
Example: We'll be in for it when we get home
Example: He's in for a rough ride

Idiom: have it in for someone

colloq
To make trouble for them, especially because of disliking them.

Idiom: have it in her (have it in him, one etc)

To be capable of (doing something).
Example: I was amazed at Jo's high dive; I didn't think she had it in her

Idiom: in as far as ... (in so far as ...)

To the degree that ... (sometimes written insofar as ...)

Idiom: in as much as ... (inasmuch as ...)

Because ... ; considering that ...

Idiom: in itself

Intrinsically; essentially; considered on its own.
Example: It's not much of a job in itself, but the prospects and perks are good

Idiom: in on something

colloq
Knowing about it and sharing in it
Example: Were you in on the secret?

Idiom: ins and outs

The complex and detailed facts of a matter; intricacies. Also called outs and ins.

Idiom: insomuch that (insomuch as)

In as much as.

To such an extent that.

Idiom: in that ...

For the reason that ...

Idiom: in with someone

colloq
Friendly with them or in favour with them.

Etymology: Anglo-Saxon.