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Know the Ropes 1100 Words You Need Week 19 Day 3

Know the Ropes 1100 Words Know the Ropes 1100 Words to be familiar with a place, system or organization and know how to act effectively, know your way around something, have experience of the appropriate procedures, to be confident and pretty good at doing or using something This idiom originated from shipping. A sailing ship had many ropes which operated the ship’s sails. Sailors had to learn exactly which rope operated each sail and they also had to learn how to tie many different types of knots. When a sailor knew all of this, he “knew the ropes”. “There is ...

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