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let's be having you

let's be having you

9.9
Ask someone to come in or join you now
  • idiom
  • UK
: ¡ven aquí!
  • You're still outside in the cold—let's be having you in here!

Examples

  • Dinner's ready, so let's be having you at the table.

  • I said, let's be having you inside before it rains.

  • Come on now, it's time to go—let's be having you.

  • Come on, let's be having you!

  • Dinner's ready, so let's be having you at the table.

  • Come on now, it's time to go—let's be having you.

  • You're still outside in the cold—let's be having you in here!

Synonyms

to invite
vslet's be having you
∞ 1.0

To ask someone politely to come or take part in an event

is more encouraging and mildly impatient than that polite request
come-here
vslet's be having you
∞ 7.9

A small hand movement that asks someone to move closer

is used to call someone with encouragement or mild impatience rather than by gesture
to ask in
vslet's be having you
17 1.0

Invite someone to come into a room or house

is more general and can call someone forward or inside impatiently
to have in
vslet's be having you
  • UK
1 4.5

Ask someone like a plumber to come to your home to do a job

is a direct spoken call to join or enter, not a arranged work visit

Antonyms

to dismiss
80 2.7

To tell people to leave a meeting or room

How Inviting

to come in
∞ 1.0
let's be having you
  • UK
9.9
come on
  • Informal
∞ 5.4
to join
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

let's be having you main
lets be having you main

Morphology

let's + be + have + you

There is a clear hint of invitation in the constituents: 'let's' signals a proposal and 'have you' can imply 'receive or include you', so a learner who knows the words might guess an inviting sense. However, the progressive 'be having you' and the dialectal/colloquial phrasing are not a standard compositional pattern in written English, so the exact pragmatic meaning (encouraging/impatient invitation) is not fully predictable without exposure.

Etymology

The phrase let's be having you may come from an older use of have meaning 'to receive or take in'. Imagine a host at the door saying it to welcome someone inside, and that's why the phrase means 'to call someone to come in or join'.