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can't complain
can't complain Used as a response meaning fairly good or well, to questions such as “How are you?” or “How is business?” For example,
How've you been?—Can't complain. This term means that nothing serious is wrong. [Mid-1800s]
can't complain
Things are fine. A accidental acknowledgment to questions like "How are you?" or "How've you been?" A: "Hey, Pat, how are you?" B: "Ah, can't complain!"Learn more: complain(I) can't complain. and (I have) annihilation to accuse about.
Inf. a acknowledgment to a greeting analysis allurement how one is or how things are activity for one. Sue: How are things going? Mary: I can't complain. Mary: Hi, Fred! How are you doing? Fred: Annihilation to accuse about.Learn more: and, complain, nothingcan't complain
Used as a acknowledgment acceptation adequately acceptable or well, to questions such as "How are you?" or "How is business?" For example, How've you been?-Can't complain. This appellation agency that annihilation austere is wrong. [Mid-1800s] Learn more: complaincan't complain
Pretty good, in acknowledgment to “How are things going?” This actual modern-sounding phrase, which agency one has annihilation 18-carat to accuse about (or at atomic will not accept it), comes from mid-nineteenth-century Britain. Eric Partridge cites an aboriginal example, R. S. Surtees’s Hawbuck Grange (1847), in which one appearance observes that time is casual agilely over another, who replies, “Middling—can’t complain.” Today it is a common acknowledgment to inquiries about a business. Learn added fair to middling.Learn more: complain
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