Meaning of let's be having you | Babel Free

Definitions

Expression to encourage someone to hurry up and move somewhere.

UK, idiomatic

Examples

“This went on for a while, until one morning I came in about five to eight, not quite due on the shop floor yet, and I stopped outside the tearoom, put on my best Smiler voice: 'Right, lads, come on, let's be having you, let's have you on shop floor now, lads, come on, stop messing around in there with tea, come on, let's be having you.'”

“You've just been volunteered, friend, so let's be having you.”

“Draping a cloak round his crooked figure, he leaned on his cane and shuffled awkwardly to the door. 'Let's be having you!' he grumbled, impatiently donning his top hat. 'Or have you forgot we've a sale to attend?'”

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