have been there before Definition

there
adverb

1. At, in or to a place or position.

Example: You can sit there
2. At that point in speech, a piece of writing or a performance, etc.

Example: Don't stop there
3. In that respect.

Example: I agree with him there
4. Used to begin a sentence when the subject of the verb follows the verb instead of coming before it.

Example: There are no mistakes in this
5. Used at the beginning of a sentence to emphasise or call attention to that sentence.

Example: There goes the last bus
6. Used after a noun for emphasis.

Example: That book there is the one you need
7. colloq or dialect
Used between a noun and this or that, etc for emphasis.
Example: that there tractor

noun

1. That place or point.

exclamation

1. Used to express satisfaction, approval, triumph or encouragement, etc.

Example: There! I knew he would come
2. Used to express sympathy or comfort, etc.

Example: There, there! He's just not worth it

Idiom: be there for someone

To be available to support them emotionally, particularly when most needed.

Idiom: have been there before

slang
To have been in the same, especially unpleasant, situation before.

Idiom: there and then

At that very time and on that very spot.

Idiom: there you are

Said when giving something to someone: this is what you need or want.

Used to express satisfaction or triumph.

Etymology: Anglo-Saxon thær.