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have at

British  

verb

  1. archaic (intr, preposition) to make an opening attack on, esp in fencing

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
have at Idioms  

  1. Attack; also, make an attempt at. For example, Urging the dog on, he said, “Go on, Rover, have at him,” or It's time to have at straightening out these files. [Late 1300s]

Example Sentences

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“But this transaction was always a ‘nice to have’ at the right price, not a ‘must have’ at any price,” the Netflix chiefs said.

From Los Angeles Times

More than three quarters of local people have at least some Welsh language skills and 58% of residents can fully speak, read and write Welsh, the Census figures show.

From BBC

Netflix said in a statement Thursday that it viewed Warner Bros as “‘nice to have’ at the right price, not a ‘must have’ at any price.”

From MarketWatch

The deal was “a ‘nice to have’ at the right price, not a ‘must have’ at any price,” Netflix’s co-CEOs say in a statement.

From The Wall Street Journal

"But this transaction was always a 'nice to have' at the right price, not a 'must have' at any price," it concluded.

From Barron's

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