how's it going!

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fenglish

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Hi,

Today, I saw a message subject as "how's it going!",

What does "how's it going!" mean?

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jlinger

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How is everything? How do you do? What's up? What's happening? How are you feeling?

It's an informal greeting.
 

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:up: It's presumably an expression that first arose among German immmigrants to the USA, who wanted a familiar translation in English of their native Wie geht es? (literally 'How is it going?'). Now though it's widely used in many countries where English is spoken.

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