what it is?
(slang, African-American Vernacular) A casual greeting.
What is dying? Just what it is to put off a garment. For the body is about the soul as a garment; and after laying this aside for a short time by means of death, we shall resume it again with more splendor. John Chrysostom
There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again. Clint Eastwood
What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know. Augustine of Hippo
Don't make a fence more expensive or more important than what it is fencing. Jewish Proverb
Don't value a gem by what it is set in. American Proverb
Serve a lord, and you will know what it is to be vexed. Portuguese Proverb