How's your family?

How's your family?
How's the family? & How's your family?
an expression used on greeting to ask about the state of the person's immediate family. •

Bob: Hello, Fred. How are you? Fred: Fine, thanks. Bob: How's the family? Fred: Great! How's yours? Bob: Couldn't be better.

“How's the family?” asked Bill, greeting his boss.


Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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