anything to do with

idiom

1
: involvement with (a person) in any way
used in negative statements
She thinks he's a liar and she refuses to have anything to do with him.
After the way he's treated me, I want nothing (further) to do with him.
2
: involvement in (something) or responsibility in some way for (something)
used in negative statements
He claims that he didn't have anything to do with the accident.
She claims that she had nothing to do with the robbery.

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The message to plant workers also said the companies are aligning EV production to better match slower demand for electric cars, saying that was the reasoning for the shift rather than anything to do with the relationship between the companies or the quality of products. Michael Wayland, CNBC, 24 Sep. 2025 Afterwards, Maresca denied that leaving them out had anything to do with him having an eye on the Champions League fixture against Bayern Munich four days later. Simon Johnson, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2025 While Tapper and others have floated the theory, Nexstar has not said the decision to pull Kimmel had anything to do with the merger. Andrew Stanton, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Sep. 2025 However, this mathematical fact doesn’t have anything to do with our calendar at all, nor with our planet’s rotation on its axis coupled with Earth’s revolution around the Sun. Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 18 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for anything to do with

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“Anything to do with.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anything%20to%20do%20with. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.

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