how's that
English
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Phrase
[edit]how's that?
- Used to ask someone to repeat something
- 2014, Richard Curtis, Death In the Crease:
- “Oh Dave, I'm so sorry.”
“How's that?”
“I said I'm sorry.”
“You'll have to speak up. I got more sirens going for me than London in the blitz.”
- (cricket) Used to make an appeal to the umpire as to whether the batsman is out or not
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see how, is, that.
Synonyms
[edit]- (asking to repeat): how's that again, I beg your pardon, pardon, come again
- (asking to explain): how so
- (in cricket): howzat, owzat