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had better

  1. Also, had best. Ought to, should. For example, You had better finish this one before starting another, or We had best be going. [Mid-1400s] Also see you'd better believe it.



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“One man said he had better things to do for four hours than to sit at a table with stale food,” she says.

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But for those of us who support that care, our defenses may have been stronger with a more nuanced approach—and if our country had better health care to begin with.

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He added that if the UK did not spend 5% on defence, it could still have an NHS but warned Britons "you had better learn to speak Russian".

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On her very first day in the job, she testified, Mr Combs threatened to kill her as he warned that her past work for other rappers had better not become a problem for him.

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“I had better parts before I became a so-called star in ‘Walking Tall.’”

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