how say you

English

Phrase

how say you

1. (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

• “how say you”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Anagrams

• how you say