be/have something to do with sth
informalC1 to be related to something or a cause of something but not in a way that you know about or understand exactly:
I'm not sure what he does exactly - it's something to do with finance.
It might have something to do with the way it's made.
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Linking and relating
- affiliated
- AL
- appertain to sth
- applicable
- apply
- associate
- associated
- bond
- connection
- context
- interplay
- interrelate
- interrelationship
- kindred
- leveller
- the same/that goes for sb/sth idiom
- tie (sth) in
- tie-in
- tie-up
- topology
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Regarding and concerning