have to do with

Idioms and Phrases

Be concerned or associated with; deal with. For example, This book has to do with the divisions within the church . [1100s] For the antonym, see have nothing to do with .

Example Sentences

"This might have to do with the extent that children really immerse parents in sports cultures, as they take their kids to soccer practices or other sports activities," Knoester said.

From Science Daily

What does Celmins’ beautiful 1992 painting of stars glinting in a dusky night sky, or Day’s 2018 gold-leaf cables and monofilament stretched on a diagonal between ceiling and floor, have to do with elucidating the art of the long Middle Ages, which “Lumen” achieves?

From Los Angeles Times

The deaths of the three fish that have surfaced “may have to do with changes in ocean conditions and increased numbers of oarfish off our coast,” said Ben Frable, manager of Scripps Oceanogaphy Marine Vertebrate Collection.

From Los Angeles Times

But prosecutors argued on Tuesday that the issues at the centre of their case did not have to do with official presidential duties.

From BBC

Variation in color perception is the rule, not the exception, for reasons that have to do with natural variation in the sensory mechanisms that allow us to take in a color stimulus, and in the mental processes that interpret it.

From Salon

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