DO WITH (SOMETHING)


Meaning of DO WITH (SOMETHING) in English

do with something phrasal verb ( see also ↑ do )

1 . could do with something spoken to need or want something:

I could have done with some help this morning.

2 . have/be to do with somebody/something to be about something, be related to something, or be involved with something:

Their conversation had been largely to do with work.

I’m sorry about the accident, but it’s nothing to do with me (=I am not involved in any way) .

This question doesn’t have anything to do with the main topic of the survey.

I’m sure her problems have something to do with what happened when she was a child.

3 . what to do with yourself how to spend your time:

She didn’t know what to do with herself after she retired.

4 . what somebody should do with something/what to do with something etc used to ask or talk about how someone should deal with something:

What shall I do with these papers?

I wouldn’t know what to do with a newborn baby.

5 . what has somebody done with something? spoken used to ask where someone has put something:

What have you done with the remote for the TV?

6 . what is somebody doing with something? used to ask why someone has something:

What are you doing with my diary?

7 . I can’t be doing with something British English spoken used to say that you are annoyed by something and do not want to have to think about it:

I can’t be doing with all this right now.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English.      Longman - Словарь современного английского языка.