"___ a man who wasn't there"

The answer

IMET

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the IMET answer page.

Used 14 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2016; first recorded in 1967. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for IMET

Every other clue in this collection answered by IMET, most used first.

• "___ a man with seven wives" - used 54 times, most recently in 2013
• "___ a man with . . . " - used 37 times, most recently in 2006
• "How ___ Your Mother" - used 30 times, most recently in 2026
• "___ a man . . . " - used 25 times, most recently in 2005
• TV's "How ___ Your Mother" - used 16 times, most recently in 2023
• "Since ___ You Baby" (1956 hit) - used 10 times, most recently in 2015
• "___ a man with seven . . . " - used 7 times, most recently in 2004
• "How __ Your Mother": CBS sitcom - used 7 times, most recently in 2017

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• All there - SANE, used 134 times
• Elevator man - OTIS, used 123 times
• "___ there, done that" - BEEN, used 123 times
• "The Thin Man" dog - ASTA, used 105 times
• Way out there - AFAR, used 104 times
• "There oughta be ___!" - ALAW, used 96 times

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