"how's your father" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "A popular catchphrase of the 1910s popularised by music-hall entertainer Harry Tate, who used it for comic effect to change the subject away from one about which his character was ignorant (hence sense 1) or a taboo subject (hence sense 2).",
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    {
      "form": "how's your fathers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "how's your father (countable and uncountable, plural how's your fathers)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "British English",
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          "_dis": "78 22",
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          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
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        {
          "_dis": "81 19",
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A whatsit; a thing which the speaker is unable or unwilling to specify more precisely."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "whatsit",
          "whatsit"
        ],
        [
          "thing",
          "thing"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(countable, slang, British) A whatsit; a thing which the speaker is unable or unwilling to specify more precisely."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "thingy"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "British",
        "countable",
        "slang"
      ]
    },
    {
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        },
        {
          "_dis": "4 96",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Sex",
          "orig": "en:Sex",
          "parents": [
            "All topics",
            "Reproduction",
            "Fundamental",
            "Life",
            "Nature"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I popped round Mary's for a bit of how's your father.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, Ben Elton, High Society, Random House, published 2012, →ISBN, page 226:",
          "text": "I mean what a buzz, man, me four fans, an’ I'm on the fookin’ telly! They love it! So suddenly it's knickers off and ’ow's your father.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Sexual intercourse."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "Sexual intercourse",
          "sexual intercourse"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(uncountable, slang, British, euphemistic) Sexual intercourse."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "sexual intercourse"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "British",
        "euphemistic",
        "slang",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "word": "how's your father"
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    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms with redundant head parameter",
    "English uncountable nouns",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "en:Sex"
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  "etymology_text": "A popular catchphrase of the 1910s popularised by music-hall entertainer Harry Tate, who used it for comic effect to change the subject away from one about which his character was ignorant (hence sense 1) or a taboo subject (hence sense 2).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "how's your fathers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~",
        "head": "how's your father"
      },
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      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "British English",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English slang"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A whatsit; a thing which the speaker is unable or unwilling to specify more precisely."
      ],
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        [
          "whatsit",
          "whatsit"
        ],
        [
          "thing",
          "thing"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(countable, slang, British) A whatsit; a thing which the speaker is unable or unwilling to specify more precisely."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "thingy"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "British",
        "countable",
        "slang"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "British English",
        "English euphemisms",
        "English slang",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English uncountable nouns"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I popped round Mary's for a bit of how's your father.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, Ben Elton, High Society, Random House, published 2012, →ISBN, page 226:",
          "text": "I mean what a buzz, man, me four fans, an’ I'm on the fookin’ telly! They love it! So suddenly it's knickers off and ’ow's your father.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Sexual intercourse."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Sexual intercourse",
          "sexual intercourse"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(uncountable, slang, British, euphemistic) Sexual intercourse."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "sexual intercourse"
        }
      ],
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        "British",
        "euphemistic",
        "slang",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
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