| 单词 | to know one's |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto know one's a. to know one's ——: to have learnt everything necessary about ——; to be well informed about ——.Originally chiefly in various fixed expressions. to know one's business: see business n. Phrases 6. to know one's liripoop: see liripipe n. 2a. to know one's stuff: see stuff n.1 7g. ΚΠ 1559 J. Aylmer Harborowe sig. H They must know their quarter strookes, and the waye how to defende their head. 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones II. ix. iii. 302 These [Heroes] are said to know their Man, and Jones, I believe, knew his Woman. 1776 C. Dibdin Seraglio i. ii. 9 Gun. Why I thought to myself; thinks I, the young Youth does not know his Soundings. Reef. Know his Soundings! Why he'll run bump a-shore for want of a Pilot. 1863 C. Kingsley Water-babies iii. 123 If they want to describe a finished young gentleman in France, I hear, they say of him, ‘Il sait son Rabelais.’ But if I want to describe one in England, I say, ‘He knows his Bewick.’ 1891 C. MacEwen Three Women in Boat 72 Surprise-turns and crooked bends make you, if you know your river, as crafty as any old fox. 1931 B. Marshall Father Malachy's Miracle iv. 73 I know my theology too well to be guilty of any leanings toward modernism. 1952 J. Lait & L. Mortimer U.S.A. Confidential ii. xvi. 181 Quigg comes from a ‘17th St. family’ which, if you know your Denver, is a breath above even the city's mile-high rarefied atmosphere. 1991 Premiere Aug. 30/2 He knows his cinema grammar—why he's put something in a two-shot or why he didn't want a close-up. < as lemmas |
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