if something happens to you, an event or action takes place which affects you
used as a way of avoiding talking directly about something bad that might take place
used for asking where someone is now and what they are doing
used for asking where something is
used for asking why something does not happen or exist now
used for talking about the way that something changes or develops
If anything happens to me (=if I die), you’ll have plenty of money to live on.
I’d never forgive myself if anything has happened to her because I didn’t go to meet her.
This is the best thing that’s ever happened to me.
We don’t understand what is happening to the economy.
Whatever happened to the idea of being innocent until proven guilty?
Whatever happened to your friend George?
What’s happened to the newspaper that was on the table?
happens to
happening to
happened to
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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