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单词 to know one's way around
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to know one's way around (also about)
(a) to know one's way around (also about).
(i) With around or about as a preposition or adverb: to be familiar with a place, area, or neighbourhood.
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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-
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > knowledge, what is known > experience > be experienced [phrase]
to know the ginc1530
to know what something is1535
to find (know, etc.) the length (also measure) of a person's foot1580
to know one's way around1814
to be more than seven1896
to know whereof one speaks (or writes, etc.)1922
1814 Morning Post 23 Apr. 1/2 (advt.) Wanted, a Coachman, chiefly to reside in the country, and who could, if required, drive four in hand; knows his way about town, and can give a personal reference.
1830 Christian Examiner & Gen. Rev. May 164 A surgeon must know his way about the human body, as a man knows his way about a city.
1848 Friends' Rev. May 542/2 He became excessively tame, went to bed with the poultry, came when called, would follow us about, and knew his way around the premises as well as the dogs.
1935 N. L. McClung Clearing in West xix. 152 Jack knew his way around, having been here many times the winter before... He drove straight down to Pacific Street to the Farmer's Home.
1952 T. Armstrong Adam Brunskill v. 140 Me and Reuben Nattrass knows us way about the mines here more than anybody.
1994 S. Butala Perfection of Morning x. 176 I had come to know my way around the countryside.
2012 Arbroath Herald (Nexis) 10 Feb. Conditions are bad enough for locals who know their way about but it must be even more frustrating for any visitors to the town!
(ii) figurative with around or about as an adverb: to be experienced in the ways of the world, be worldly-wise; to have a shrewdness born of experience.
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the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > be versed or skilled [verb (intransitive)]
to have the way (also ways)?1520
to know what something is1535
practise1542
skilla1586
to be one's craftsmaster1594
to know the ropes1802
to know one's way around1861
to know (something) backwards1904
to know one's stuff1927
1861 Standard 5 Oct. 6/3 Lord Coventry, who knows his way about, backed the first and second in the handicap to-day.
1867 All Year Round 13 July 56/2 In this case the tramp who ‘knows his way about’ knows what to do.
1921 J. Galsworthy To Let i. v. 52 ‘That's a young woman who knows her way about,’ he said.
1968 H. R. F. Keating Inspector Ghote hunts Peacock vii. 95 That girl was a pretty slick chick..She knew her way around.
1991 A. Carter Wise Children (1992) ii. 78 We were just slips of girls but we soon knew our way around.
(iii) In extended use, with around or about as a preposition: to know how to deal with, accomplish, or make use of.
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1898 Mrs. H. Ward Helbeck I. iii. i. 265 I know my way about a railway guide. There's one a little after eight.
1935 L. Hart Heart is Quicker than Eye in Compl. Lyrics (1986) 223/2 Dear old mother was as wise as ten folks And she knew her way about the menfolks.
1962 Billboard Music Week 19 May 24/4 A Swiss ensemble that knows its way around the polka and waltz.
1985 W. Sheed Frank & Maisie ii. 24 He still can't take a poet seriously who doesn't know his way around his trochees and anapests.
2013 MX (Melbourne) (Nexis) 14 Aug. 17 Learner snappers and those who know their way around a camera will enjoy the aesthetics and hardware.
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