SIZE OF IT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does size of it mean? 

• SIZE OF IT (noun)
  The noun SIZE OF IT has 1 sense:

1. the actual state of affairs

  Familiarity information: SIZE OF IT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SIZE OF IT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The actual state of affairs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

size; size of it

Context example:

she hates me, that's about the size of it

Hypernyms ("size of it" is a kind of...):

situation; state of affairs (the general state of things; the combination of circumstances at a given time)

Domain usage:

colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)

 Context examples 

Then there was the size of it—it was twice yours, sir.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Ship gone, neck gone—that's the size of it.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)