| 单词 | you know what he is like |
| 释义 | > as lemmasyou know what he (she, etc.) is like P33. to know what (a person or type) is like: to be familiar with the behaviour, habits, etc., of (a person or type); to be able to predict how (someone) will behave or react on the basis of this familiarity. Frequently in you know what he (she, etc.) is like, often expressing resignation or exasperation. Cf. sense 7d. ΚΠ 1845 E. M. Sewell Gertrude II. xliv. 200 ‘You know what she is like when things go wrong.’ Edith did know from bitter experience. 1890 L. Ensor tr. A. Daudet Jack ii. iii. 332 You know what he is like. Very kind but inexorable. 1957 M. Moore Let. 25 Jan. in Sel. Lett. (1997) 537 Well, we know what artists can be like. 1960 J. Symons Progress of Crime xiv. 88 You know what he's like, cool as a cuke. 1992 T. Davies Modest Pageant 117 I'm all right—honest. It's just Les—you know what he's like when he turns. 2003 Amer. Sociol. Rev. 68 235/2 You know what women are like—they tend to fight more when they're put together. < as lemmas |
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