what a business!
old-fashionedDefinition
› used to mean that something was annoying and caused a lot of trouble for you: It took ages to sort out the documentation needed to get into the country - what a business!Expressions of anger
(Definition of what a business! from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- (really) take the biscuit idiom
- bally adjective, adverb
- beg verb
- blast exclamation
- blasted adjective (ANGRY)
- bleeding adjective
- blessed adjective
- bloody adjective, adverb (ANGER)
- blooming adjective, adverb
- dickens noun
- doggone exclamation, adjective
- drat (it) exclamation
- flaming adjective
- flip exclamation
- flipping adjective, adverb
- for crying out loud! idiom
- just my luck! idiom
- need verb (MUST DO)
- put/stick that in your pipe and smoke it! idiom
- sodding adjective
Topic:
Expressions of anger
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