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How-do-you-do   /haʊ-du-ju-du/   Listen
How-do-you-do

noun
1.
An awkward situation.  Synonym: how-d'ye-do.
2.
An expression of greeting.  Synonyms: hello, hi, howdy, hullo.






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"How-do-you-do" Quotes from Famous Books



... banisters. She sat there, her face haggard with unshed tears, until Mrs. Richie came out of Nannie's room and found her. It was then that David's mother, who thought she had done her best in the courteous commonplace of how-do-you-do—suddenly did better; she stooped down ...
— The Iron Woman • Margaret Deland



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