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how-do-you-do

NOUN
  1. an awkward situation
    that's a fine how-d'ye-do
  2. an expression of greeting
    every morning they exchanged polite hellos

How To Use how-do-you-do In A Sentence

  • When one day in March, 1883, a striking young Frenchman, who said he was a nobleman, came to Little Missouri with a plan ready-made to build a community there to rival Omaha, and a business that would startle America's foremost financiers, the citizens of the wicked little frontier settlement, who thought that they knew all the possibilities of "tenderfeet" and "pilgrims" and "how-do-you-do-boys," admitted in some bewilderment that they had been mistaken. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands
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