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单词 to have pat
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to have (a story, routine, etc.) (off, down) pat
P1. to have (a story, routine, etc.) (off, down) pat: to be able to recite or perform readily and faultlessly from memory; (also, depreciatively) to repeat glibly, to parrot.
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1776 J. Leacock Fall Brit. Tyranny iv. vi. 50 It's a pity but you were a bishop, you have the scriptures so pat.
1795 H. Cowley Town before You Pref. p. xiii I'll tell a story—and I have one pat.
1839 N. P. Willis Two Ways of Dying for Husband iv. i. 101 First Lord: What mean you, sir! Tortesa: To keep you here till you have got your story Pat to the tongue.
1882 C. E. L. Riddell Prince of Wales's Garden Party 259 He..had the whole story pat enough.
1890 B. Stoker Snake's Pass vii. 87 You seem to have it all off pat!
1899 C. L. Cullen Tales of Ex-tanks 296 Got it down pretty pat, hasn't he?
1950 A. Buckeridge Jennings goes to School ix. 172 If anyone asks me if I know where you're playing..I'll have the answer off pat.
1971 Creem May 74 Sir Lord Baltimore seems to have down pat most all the best heavy metal tricks in the book.
2002 Guardian 28 June (Friday Review section) 17/3 [The song shows] the woozy, gentle melodicism that Morcheeba now have down pat.
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