HAVE TO DO WITH

 Dictionary entry overview: What does have to do with mean? 

• HAVE TO DO WITH (verb)
  The verb HAVE TO DO WITH has 1 sense:

1. be relevant to

  Familiarity information: HAVE TO DO WITH used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HAVE TO DO WITH (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Be relevant to

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

bear on; come to; concern; have to do with; pertain; refer; relate; touch; touch on

Context example:

My remark pertained to your earlier comments

Verb group:

advert; allude; touch (make a more or less disguised reference to)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "have to do with"):

center; center on; concentrate on; focus on; revolve about; revolve around (center upon)

apply; go for; hold (be pertinent or relevant or applicable)

affect; involve; regard (connect closely and often incriminatingly)

interest; matter to (be of importance or consequence)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

 Context examples 

What can you have to do with hearts?

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

What in the world can he have to do with it?

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

What does salt have to do with Mars?

(Salty Diet Makes You Hungry, Not Thirsty, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

I have no doubt they are, though I fail to see what their voices have to do with it.

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

Friend John, up to now fortune has made that woman of help to us; after to-night she must not have to do with this so terrible affair.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

On the other hand, the interaction I see that you might have with medical personnel could have to do with your participation in several physical therapy sessions.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

But what could he have to do with this old family custom of ours, and what does this rigmarole mean?

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

What did love have to do with Ruth's divergent views on art, right conduct, the French Revolution, or equal suffrage?

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

For my man was a fellow that nobody could have to do with, a really damnable man; and the person that drew the cheque is the very pink of the proprieties, celebrated too, and (what makes it worse) one of your fellows who do what they call good.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

This could cause a rift with the person you are dating (or it may have to do with plans you have for one of your children), and the hard part is that this aspect has a wide area of influence.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)