anything to do with

idiom

1
: involvement with (a person) in any way
used in negative statements
She thinks he's a liar and she refuses to have anything to do with him.
After the way he's treated me, I want nothing (further) to do with him.
2
: involvement in (something) or responsibility in some way for (something)
used in negative statements
He claims that he didn't have anything to do with the accident.
She claims that she had nothing to do with the robbery.

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Of course, none of this has anything to do with integrity. Scott Maxwell, Orlando Sentinel, 19 Mar. 2025 The other important piece of news that morning is that the F.B.I. has concluded that the attack on the American Homestead Bank didn’t have anything to do with the Reapers or Zero Day after all –– it was caused by a group called Sinecure and has already been resolved. Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 20 Feb. 2025 Doman signed a consent decree that neither admitted nor denied the allegations in the complaint, but did prohibit him from having anything to do with a prize promotion fraud or money transmitting business. Candi Bolden, Miami Herald, 23 Feb. 2025 Needless to say, no one who has any standards whatsoever should want to have anything to do with these loathsome cretins. The Editors, National Review, 3 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for anything to do with

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“Anything to do with.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anything%20to%20do%20with. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.

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