how say you
English edit
Phrase edit
- (formal) With regard to a thing said or asked about, as when one asks an opinion: what do you say? What is your opinion?
- Synonym: what say you
- How say you, gentlemen of the jury?
- c. 1593 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The Tragedy of King Richard the Third. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Valentine Sims [and Peter Short] for Andrew Wise, […], published 1597, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
- How ſay you ſir, can you deny all this?
Further reading edit
- “how say you”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.