knack
noun /næk/
/næk/
[singular] (informal)- a special skill or ability that you have naturally or can learn
- It's easy, once you've got the knack.
- knack of/for (doing) something He's got a real knack for making money.
Extra Examples- He has the knack of scoring goals just when they are most needed.
- I don't cook much these days and I think I may have lost the knack.
- Making omelettes isn't difficult, but there's a knack to it.
- a woman with a knack for handling horses
- He had a knack for picking winners.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- real
- amazing
- incredible
- …
- have
- demonstrate
- display
- …
- knack for
- knack of
- knack to
- …
- knack of doing something a habit of doing something
- She has the unfortunate knack of always saying the wrong thing.
- He had the unhappy knack of making enemies in the party.
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Word Originlate Middle English (originally denoting a clever or deceitful trick): probably related to obsolete knack ‘sharp blow or sound’, of imitative origin (compare with Dutch knak ‘crack, snap’).