Verb
To state or hold as true.
Conventional wisdom has it that heat rises, but in fact heat diffuses: hot air rises.
To be the object of ridicule, rebuke, critique, etc.
To possess some desirable quality or ability.
I was nervous about her performing on stage, but after all these years, she still has it.
I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it. Colette
The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident. Charles Lamb
I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it. Dwight D. Eisenhower
Be a custom good or bad, a peasant will have it continue in force. Spanish Proverb
If you don't take it, you don't have it. Jamaican Proverb
Better deserve honour and not have it, than have it and not deserve it. Portuguese Proverb