单词 | to have a way with |
释义 | > as lemmasto have a way with (g) to have a way with. extracted from wayn.1int.1 (i) To have great skill or ability in using. Chiefly in to have a way with words: to be able to speak or write eloquently or expressively. ΚΠ 1823 J. F. Cooper Pioneers III. vi. 107 It's a very good sort of a man is this Master Bumppo, and he has a way with a spear. 1891 Lit. World 11 Apr. 126/3 He has a way with words that is alluring. 1921 America 5 Feb. 385/2 Spenser was a real poet. He had a way with words. 1936 Esquire Nov. 203/1 Johnson had a way with a knife and, with a few adroit strokes, could cut away the flesh and lay bare the sinews. 1987 R. Curtis & B. Elton Blackadder the Third in R. Curtis et al. Blackadder: Whole Damn Dynasty (1998) 261/2 Oh, you do have a way with words, Mr Shelley! 2000 M. Gayle Turning Thirty ii. 11 Bill Gates has a way with computers, Picasso had a way with a paintbrush..I have a way with the telephone. 2014 Aberdeen Evening Express (Nexis) 5 Nov. 2 Having a way with words can help you in the world of work. (ii) To have a particular talent for dealing with. ΚΠ 1902 E. F. Benson Scarlet & Hyssop xii. 235 The country..likes you a good deal. You have a way with plebeians. 1922 B. Hecht 1001 Afternoons in Chicago 260 They pick me out for the death watch on account I have a way with doomed men. 1940 M. Dickens Mariana iv. 96 There was Dr. Hopkins, who evidently had a way with children and talked to Mary with untiring coyness all through tea. 1957 F. O'Connor Let. 22 Dec. in Habit of Being (1980) 260 All the men who know her seem to like her as I strongly gather she has a way with them. 1990 P. Auster Music of Chance i. 4 There was no question that the guy had a way with kids. < as lemmas |
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