you
(unstressed)
pron subjective or objective
1 refers to the person addressed or to more than one person including the person or persons addressed but not including the speaker
you know better, the culprit is among you
2 (Also)
one refers to an unspecified person or people in general
you can't tell the boys from the girls
3 (Chiefly U.S.) a dialect word for yourself or yourselves when used as an indirect object
you should get you a wife now
n
4 Informal the personality of the person being addressed or something that expresses it
that hat isn't really you
5 ♦
you know what or who a thing or person that the speaker cannot or does not want to specify (Old English eow, dative and accusative of ge ye1; related to Old Saxon eu, Old High German iu, Gothic izwis) See at me1
how do you do
sentence substitute
1 (Also)
how do?, how dye do? a formal greeting said by people who are being introduced to each other or are meeting for the first time
n
♦
how-do-you-do
2 Informal a difficult situation
save as you earn
n (in Britain) a savings scheme operated by the government, in which monthly contributions earn tax-free interest, (Abbrev.)
SAYE
thank you
interj
n a conventional expression of gratitude
you-all
pron a U.S., esp. Southern, word for →
you esp. when addressing more than one person esp. when addressing more than one person
you'd (unstressed)
contraction of you had or you would
you'll (unstressed)
contraction of you will or you shall
you're (unstressed)
contraction of you are
you've (unstressed)
contraction of you have