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单词 to know one's trade
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to know one's trade
b. to know one's trade: to be experienced or knowledgeable in one's occupation. Cf. to know one's business at business n. Phrases 6.
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1613 N. Breton Vncasing Machiuils Instr. 7 If that thou be a Marchant know thy trade.
1653 J. Davies tr. C. Sorel Extravagant Shepherd x. 263 The making of Elegies is the taking of a far flight, which is proper only for such birds as know their trade.
1718 C. Molloy Coquet iii. 54 I believe he has not been a Thief long, for he scarce knows his Trade yet.
1778 G. Steevens Note on Hamlet ii. ii, in S. Johnson & G. Steevens Plays of Shakespeare (rev. ed.) X. 420 The player knew his trade, and spoke the lines in an affecting manner.
1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth xii, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 312 The gouge knows her trade.
1887 Jrnl Soc. Arts 7 Jan. 127/1 Earlier, unknown, and less accomplished draughtsmen, who knew their trade.
1942 L. D. Rich We took to Woods iii. 73 It's an implication that he doesn't know his trade.
1992 T. Enright tr. S. O'Crohan Day in our Life (1993) 134 These were no two old codgers, but men who knew their trade.
2012 G. H. Davis Romancing the Roads II. 171 What an interesting conversation I had with Chef Wiggins as she described what I was eating. There was no question she knows her trade.
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