what now
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English
[edit]Phrase
[edit]- A request for advice or instruction on what should be done.
- Synonym: now what
- A request, usually rhetorical, to know what, in a series of negative events, is the next negative event occurring.
- Synonym: now what
- Synonym of what do you want? (said out of irritation)
- Synonym of how's that
Translations
[edit]what do you want?
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Further reading
[edit]- “what now now what” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.
- “what now” in Idioms and phrases, TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.