单词 | to show someone the ropes |
释义 | > as lemmasto show someone (also put someone up to) the ropes P5. to know the ropes: be experienced in or familiar with some customary action, practice, etc. Also in to learn (also understand) the ropes. Hence to show someone (also put someone up to) the ropes: to teach or explain to someone the customary ways of doing something. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > be versed or skilled [verb (intransitive)] to have the way (also ways)?1520 to know what something is1535 practise1542 skilla1586 to be one's craftsmaster1594 to know the ropes1802 to know one's way around1861 to know (something) backwards1904 to know one's stuff1927 society > education > teaching > [verb (transitive)] > teach how ken1362 learna1400 instruct1477 show1519 school1577 to show someone (also put someone up to) the ropes1802 1802 J. Skene Diary in Ital. Journey (1937) 127 I am a stranger and..I beg you to show me how I ought to proceed... You know the ropes and can give me good advice. 1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast ix. 74 The captain, who..‘knew the ropes’, took the steering oar. 1848 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 747/2 He's in my watch, and the captain wants him to rough it out; so show him the ropes, and let him taste an end now an' then. 1850 ‘J. Timon’ Sketch 18 Aug. in I. Marvell Opera Goer (1852) II. 186 The belle of two weeks standing, who has ‘learned the ropes’. 1854 Congress. Globe 33rd Congress 1st Session App. 893/2 They are familiar with all the dodges of the season, understand the ropes about town [etc.]. 1874 Hotten's Slang Dict. (rev. ed.) 271 ‘To know the ropes,’ is to be conversant with the minutiæ of metropolitan dodges, as regards both the streets and the sporting world. 1876 W. Besant & J. Rice Golden Butterfly III. xiii. 230 You've sought me out, and gone about this city with me; you've put me up to ropes. 1894 J. N. Maskelyne ‘Sharps & Flats’ 98 The circle was composed entirely of men who thought they ‘knew the ropes’ as well as he did. a1911 D. G. Phillips Susan Lenox (1917) II. ii. 20 'I'll show you the ropes,' said Miss Hinkle... 'You'll find the job dead easy.' 1937 ‘G. Orwell’ Road to Wigan Pier ix. 182 I would find out about tramps and how you got in touch with them..and then, when I..knew the ropes well enough, I would go on the road myself. 1948 E. Waugh Loved One 133 Mr. Schultz had found a young man to take Dennis's place and Dennis was spending his last week at the Happier Hunting Ground in showing him the ropes. 1973 G. Greene Honorary Consul i. i. 26 Fortnum knew the local ropes. He saved the Ambassador a lot of trouble. 2008 N.Y. Times 1 Jan. (Washington Final ed.) a1/6 It is clear that Mr. Zardari is going to be regent while his son learns the ropes. < as lemmas |
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