what with en · ADP
Pronunciation
Meanings
-
(idiomatic, informal) Owing to; because of; as a result of (used typically to introduce several causes of something)
What with it being too late and raining, we decided to stay home.
She was sleeping very badly these days, what with the new baby and all the activity surrounding him.
It was hard to take him seriously, though, what with his multi-colored eye makeup.
2009 October 29, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Mr Stink, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:It’s amazing that Plato, Aristotle and Socrates got any philosophizing done at all, what with all the lewd and lascivious behavior going on.
2005, Annabelle du Fouet, “The murky world from whence it all came” (chapter 2), in Weather Balloons Make Rotten Sex Toys, Ellora's Cave, →ISBN, page 36:Her half-brother had now ample means again, but what with debts and what with new madness wasted them most fearfully again.
1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter III, in Great Expectations […], volume II, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, page 39:
Translations (9)
is út af (owing to) · ar بِسَبَب (owing to) · ar لِأَن (owing to) · kmr ji ber (owing to) · pl z powodu (owing to) · pt por conta de (owing to) · kmr seba (owing to) · ar حَيْث (owing to) · pl ze względu na (owing to)