| 单词 | to have a way with one |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto have a way with one (d) to have a way with one: to have a charming and persuasive manner. Also with modifying adjective (occasionally with way in the plural). ΘΚΠ the mind > will > motivation > persuasion > persuade [verb (intransitive)] > have persuasive manner to have a way with one1655 1655 F. G. tr. ‘G. de Scudéry’ Artamenes V. x. iii. 180 He seems so tender, so sweet, so civill, and so affable, and has such an obliging way with him, as would perswade any one he loves them better than ever he did any. 1677 Duke of Newcastle & T. Shadwell Triumphant Widow iii. 38 He has overcome me, Madam, he has such a way with him. 1711 R. Martin in E. H. Burton Life Bp. Challoner (1909) I. iii. 33 Saying yt he'd make a most excellent missioner; he had such an honest way with him. 1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas III. vii. xii. 156 You have very winning ways with you; you make me do just whatever you please. 1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop i. iv. 92 Quilp has such a way with him when he likes, that the best-looking woman here couldn't refuse him if..he chose to make love to her. 1901 Athenæum 27 July 120/2 Sticking through thick and thin to the fascinating good-for-nothing who has a way with him. 1959 A. Sillitoe Loneliness of Long-distance Runner (1962) 121 She was the sort of woman as ‘had a way with her’—which meant that she usually got what she wanted. 1999 F. McCourt 'Tis li. 463 Lord above, she said, that man had a way with him. < as lemmas |
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