AND HOW

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does and how mean? 

• AND HOW (adverb)
  The adverb AND HOW has 1 sense:

1. an expression of emphatic agreement

  Familiarity information: AND HOW used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AND HOW (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An expression of emphatic agreement

Synonyms:

and how; you bet; you said it

 Context examples 

I have often since reflected, what destruction such doctrine would make in the libraries of Europe; and how many paths of fame would be then shut up in the learned world.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

You seem cognizant of the seriousness of the effort you are making and how important it will be to you that the event turns out to be perfect in every way.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

So she told him all about Kansas, and how gray everything was there, and how the cyclone had carried her to this queer Land of Oz.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

He realized how much he slept, and how much he desired to sleep.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I saved enough to bring me across, and then I came here where the soldiers are, for I know their ways and how to amuse them and so earn enough to keep me.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He looked around at the birds, but alas! there were many, many nightingales, and how then should he find out which was his Jorinda?

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Giant trees like the ones we found are simply awe-inspiring, they remind us how amazing the Amazon rainforest is, and how important it is to preserve it.

(Expedition finds tallest tree in the Amazon, University of Cambridge)

The research builds on earlier work that described how the crater formed and how life quickly recovered at the site.

(Rocks at asteroid impact site record first day of dinosaur extinction, National Science Foundation)

The biologists looked at the genes in root tip cells to understand whether and how the genes were activated when covered with water and deprived of oxygen.

(Grains in the rain, National Science Foundation)

This is the first brain imaging study of two related individuals to investigate if and how babies’ interpersonal neural connectivity with their mothers is affected by the emotional quality of their social interaction.

(Mothers’ and babies’ brains ‘more in tune’ when mother is happy, University of Cambridge)