| 单词 | to know a thing or two |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto know (also learn, show, teach, tell) (a person) a thing or two P7. colloquial. a thing or two: several things; a considerable or significant number of things. Chiefly with verbs relating to the possession or imparting of information, expertise, etc., as to know (also learn, show, teach, tell) (a person) a thing or two, to be up to a thing or two. ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > enlightenment > enlighten [verb (transitive)] to open a person's eyeslOE clear1399 illumine?1499 illustrate1526 illightena1555 illuminate?1566 unblind1598 irradiate1628 unblindfold1643 to know (also learn, show, teach, tell) (a person) a thing or two1760 illumea1764 enlighten1811 the mind > mental capacity > understanding > wisdom, sagacity > worldly wisdom > have worldly wisdom [phrase] to know what's whatc1422 to know (also learn, show, teach, tell) (a person) a thing or two1760 to know one's way around1814 to have one's head screwed on right (also the right way)1821 to have been around1872 to know (also have) all the answers1896 to know how many (blue) beans make five- society > morality > virtue > righteousness or rectitude > reform, amendment, or correction > reform [verb (intransitive)] > improve after a mistake to know (also learn, show, teach, tell) (a person) a thing or two1760 1760 G. A. Stevens Hist. Tom Fool I. xxvi. 175 I think I know a Thing, or two,—I think I do,—only ask Tomkyns after me; and if he says I'm to be had,..gi'me an Angel, and I'll give you 500. 1779 F. Pilon Liverpool Prize i. ii. 7 You see, master Debenture, he understands a thing or two. 1816 Sporting Mag. 48 173 The training-groom was up to a thing or two. 1856 C. Reade It is never too Late II. xxxii. 319 Jackey showed Robinson a thing or two. 1859 W. M. Thackeray Virginians xviii I think I have shown him that we in Virginia know a thing or two. 1870 Routledge's Every Boy's Ann. 87 The fact of his being ‘up to a thing or two’. 1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 673 Does any one..feel inclined to tell me that those old palm-oil chiefs have not learnt a thing or two during their lives? 1919 ‘K. Mansfield’ Let. 4 Oct. (1993) III. 7 I always feel she thinks it ‘so nice and homey’ to occasionally smash a thing or two. 1930 P. G. Wodehouse Very Good, Jeeves vi. 143 ‘Listen, Bertie,’ said Aunt Dahlia earnestly, ‘I'm an older woman than you are—well, you know what I mean—and I can tell you a thing or two.’ 1932 L. Golding Magnolia St. iii. ix. 592 It's taught us both a thing or two. 1973 M. Bence-Jones Palaces of Raj xi. 191 Simla could teach Naini Tal a thing or two as regards dances. 2003 Radio Times 1 Nov. (Midlands ed.) 14/1 Tara Palmer-Tomkinson knows a thing or two about holidays. < as lemmas |
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