- "I've often wondered why some good crime writer . . . hasn't taken up with New Orleans, what with its special raffishness, its peculiar flavor of bonhomie and a slightly suspect charm" (Walker Percy).
- What with the weather and my bad leg, I haven’t been out for weeks.
- I haven’t had time to sit down, what with one thing and another.
- I completely forgot her birthday, what with one thing and another.
- Taking into consideration; because of.
- (informal) because of sth or a series of things
cf. (what) with one thing and another : (informal) because you have been busy with various problems, events or things you had to do
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