how goes it

短语
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英文释义

短语
  1. An informal greeting roughly equivalent to how are you. idiomatic
    — Here comes the Lady Paulina's Steward: hee can deliuer you more. How goes it now (Sir.)

词源

The phrase is a regular Early Modern English equivalent of how's it going (when neither progressive tenses nor do-support were obligatory). As such it could have survived through regional dialects. Nevertheless modern usage is likely a calque of German wie geht es, perhaps additionally also Dutch hoe gaat het, Danish hvordan går det, etc.
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