have-not
Example Sentences
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Eventually — I’m hoping around April or May — we’ll lose interest in who’s a have-shot and who’s a have-not.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 20, 2021
That's easy: Because the have-not owners are mad, and the other possible solutions, which include stricter salary caps, would pit them against the player's union in a losing fight.
From Golf Digest ● Sep. 16, 2019
“I always coached mostly the have-not schools,” Kelvin said.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 14, 2019
For the next month, Mr. Moore’s disappearing inevitability, Mr. Jones’s hope-based insurgency and the strain between have and have-not Republicans will be debated every day in the state’s meat-and-three restaurants.
From New York Times ● Nov. 11, 2017
A knight with a silver suit of armour would immediately call himself a have-not, if he met a knight with a golden one.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
