anything to do with

idiom

: 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.

: 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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In a video posted to his YouTube channel Monday, Feb. 3, the former CNN anchor, 58, denied having anything to do with reports that the 808s & Heartbreak artist, 47, and his wife Bianca Censori, 30, were kicked out of the 2025 Grammys the night before. —

Angel Saunders, People.com, 4 Feb. 2025 This doesn’t have anything to do with any artist’s beef […] In no way, form or shape is this a plot or agenda to bring anyone down.. —

Marc Griffin, VIBE.com, 3 Feb. 2025 The allegation might have risen above ignorant innuendo if Lyman had tried to show any evidence that the governor, the mayor or the port commissioner had anything to do with the container ship striking the bridge. —

Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune, 2 Feb. 2025 Trump offered no evidence that diversity had anything to do with the crash and, at other points, seemed to place the blame for it on the pilot of the Black Hawk. —

Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 2 Feb. 2025 See all Example Sentences for anything to do with

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