0 a formal greeting for someone that you have not met before: --
"I'm Jack Stewart." "How do you do? I'm Angela Black."
1 a difficult, worrying, and unpleasant situation: --
"I had a row with my sister and now she's refusing to talk to me." "Well, that's a fine how do you do!"
NYA ORD
European
May 10, 2021
DAGENS ORD
Shimmer
how do you do?